Fishing off the Deep End - and Back MarineBio Marine Life Directory

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By Carl Safina, The Multinational Monitor, September 2003 - VOLUME 24 - NUMBER 9

"Humans are by far the most aquatic primate, and close association with water probably played a major role in our evolution. People have been fishing for 100,000 years, and the birth of civilization was famously cradled in the crescent of two rivers. No one knows how humans got to Australia 40,000 years ago, but no land bridge existed, and it is astonishingly possible that the aboriginals' distant ancestors were adept boat builders even then. Using stone-age technologies no metals, no compass Polynesians fared throughout the vast Pacific. Humans have often explored, migrated and settled along watercourses and coastlines. Our products and pilgrims alike move by the flow of water. And today nearly half the global human population lives within 100 miles of the seacoast. So coastal living, fishing and seafood have been with us since, roughly, Day One. The question on the plate today is: How much longer will the fish be around for dinner?"

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