CHAPTER 2
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Farming the Sea
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Theoch hélief that there are as many good sh left in the sea as
ever.taleen Out of it is no longer
as
mea/eenea’ hy over—shing. To recoüer,Î the depleæd stOehs ofsh
must be rested, but, even then, the great
in
moele‘rh shing— eets makes impossible any return to”nneàhtr0[kil lex—
ploitation. Only the relatively untouohed populations of Ooeaizi'e sh
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tan support large eets without too much“ control or management,
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gear anal teehnig‘ues have yet to he devised for most potential oeeanit
sheries
moreover, the need to deploy eets oversieeh'iaâz’ü area
costs high, perhaps prohibitivz‘aly so. “The days of
,
the marine hunter appears to he nunihered anal inhis plateona3‘teorh‘e
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the “estate
of highly regulated international
and
of course the marine farmers.
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THE cultivätion of one rarine sh, theîÿleWtætil, is alreadyqmte
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extensive in Japan. The sh which
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of the sh'el‘tè‘i‘ed Inland «Sea “are ‘ta‘ker'i Whenÿüùhg
ffY-a c_aught during the spring,“ is r€arèd ëto
follôwing Winter. In
‘àh0ut'2ihillidh sh Wei‘éïîreleà'sed
mthe
,
groWing placés. At Cômaèchi0, ‘sOiïthOf
method
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is‘ used. In this
Which
Well fïdatelom
pre—Roman times, sh are trapped
upie$ha‘lloW
They remain in them during
“Shades
‘Ïhe éh froih‘ the ‘sunnèf
in the Winter
fresh Water Tunnihg ï0Ver the surface
thé lagoon”
form
an“insulaüñg layer
the very Cold air «“WhiCh Would
colder stiîl, Just*àsin the }a‘p3nese“
af“:
'oùtsidef and brought into
eiïcIOsures.
Ihi Other
“the W0f1d;
kept
'—f0fÏa few days ’or :weeks
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