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with seafood (''Spaghetti allo scoglio'').]] from the fishette on Harbor drive in San Diego .]] Seafood is any Sea Animal that is served as Food or is suitable for eating. This usually includes Sea Water animals, such as Fish and Shellfish (including Mollusk s and Crustacean s). By extension, in North America although not generally in the United Kingdom , the term seafood is also applied to similar animals from Fresh Water and all edible aquatic animals are collectively referred to as seafood. Edible . The harvesting of seafood is known as Fishing and the cultivation of seafood is known as Aquaculture , Mariculture , or simply Fish Farming . HISTORY From the earliest age of human -like traps have long been widely used to hunt fish in River s and Lake s. Sometimes, fish was Spear ed just as one would hunt a small animal. Ancient Egypt ian civilization used the symbol of fish for counting large numbers; they ate fish both dried and fresh. Observant Jew s abstain from all shellfish due to Kashrut . It is looked over often, but the rise of ancient Greek and Roman civilization was in no small part due to the abundant fish of the Mediterranean Sea . Shellfish was a staple food in many locations and in the Jomon Period of Japan; the amount of shellfish consumed and thrown away from that time is used to measure how many people lived in certain area. DISHES Seafood is a source of Protein in many Diet s around the world. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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