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This book hooked me. It\u2019s not about using plastic worms to fool largemouth bass\u2014in fact, there\u2019s little mention of recreational fishing in this book. That\u2019s because renowned archaeologist Brian Fagan has focused his attention on commercial fishing, as reflected in the book\u2019s subtitle: \u201cHow the Sea Fed Civilization.\u201d Necessarily jumping back and forth in time, Fagan traces the influence of commercial fisheries around the world and proves that fishing was just as important to human advancement as the advent of agriculture. The downside to this story, of course, is over-fishing and the depletion of fish stocks such as the cod of the North Atlantic. But even these events are starting to have an upside to them: in 2014, more farm-raised fish were eaten than wild-caught, and Fagan reports that \u201cStocks of North Sea cod and haddock are improving significantly.\u201d However, it will take decades of not fishing to counter centuries of uncontrolled over-fishing. The answer lies in controlling the fish stocks we have left while increasing aquaculture. \u201cGlobal food fish aquaculture doubled from 32.4 million tons in 2000 to 66.6 million tons in 2012,\u201d he writes. This is a well-researched and fascinating book that reveals the ingenuity of mankind as well as its greed. You can buy it here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This book hooked me. It\u2019s not about using plastic worms to fool largemouth bass\u2014in fact, there\u2019s little mention of recreational fishing in this book. That\u2019s because renowned archaeologist Brian Fagan has focused his attention on commercial fishing, as reflected in the book\u2019s subtitle: \u201cHow the Sea Fed Civilization.\u201d Necessarily jumping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,63],"tags":[67,64,65,68,66],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6005"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6011,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6005\/revisions\/6011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}