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3500 BCE
Cultivation of carp begins in China using freshwater ponds and rice paddies.
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Mar 24, 1400
Marine finfish aquaculture begins in Indonesia when young milkfish are trapped in coastal ponds at high tide.
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Fish farming in its modern form begins when a German farmer successfully gathers trout eggs, fertilizes them, and then grows the hatched fish to maturity.
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The first commercial trout farm in the U.S. established in Idaho.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Farm Pond Program encourages the growth of the U.S. aquaculture industry by providing federal subsidies for building and stocking fishponds on farms.
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Commercial shrimp farming develops in Japan and soon begins in Ecuador and the U.S.
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World aquaculture production is estimated to be 6.1 million metric tons (mt).
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The National Aquaculture Act of 1980 is passed in the US to provide for the development of the aquaculture industry.
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The British Columbia government places a moratorium on new salmon farm tenures in order to conduct an environmental review of the industry.
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Infectious salmon anemia (ISA) spreads to Maine forcing salmon farmers to slaughter over 1 million fish.
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Salmon farmers in Maine are found in violation of the Clean Water Act and ordered to fallow their sites for two to three years and cease the use of European strains of fish at their farms.