Yu the Great, founder and first emperor of the Xia Dynasty in 2070 BC wrote about laws that regulated the periods during which fish spawn could be harvested.
Fan Lin in 475 BC wrote a record describing aquaculture and it benefits in Chinese and by that time it is likely that aquaculture had already become well established.
He described how to spawn fish including how to select ripe brooders.
It was reported that Japanese began farming oyster intertidally about 3000 years ago. In the Indo-Pacific region laws were passed almost 3500 years ago to protect the fish-farmers from thieves.
Egyptians also appeared to have developed aquaculture system between 2357 and 1786 BC.
In the United States, fish were farmed during the nineteenth century, but aquaculture did not became an important commercial activity until the 1960s and 1970s.
American government documents from Congress during the 1850s reported the recent progresses in fish culture practices to trout in artificial ponds.
It was not until the late 1950s that large-scale commercial production of aquatic organisms as a food source began.
By 2004, almost 40 percent of all shrimp production in the world came from aquaculture, mainly in developing country.
History of aquaculture
