Division of Fish & Wildlife P.O. Box 400 Trenton, NJ 08625-0400 walk-in at 501 E. State St., 3rd Floor Director: 609-292-0891 General information: 609-292-2965 njwildlife@nac.net
New York Division of Fish, Wildlife, and Marine Resources 205 North Belle Mead Rd, Suite 1 East Setauket, NY 11733-3400 phone 516-444-0470 fax 516-444-0471
Phoenician colonies and voyages. Modified from The Challenger Reports (summary), 1895
Human populations through time have often flourished near the sea, partly because of the food resources that can be found there, but also because of the ease of transportation of people and cargo by boats. Observations about various organisms and environments were of course a major part of human activities since the earliest times, since the very survival of early Homo sapiens depended on this knowledge to obtain food and provide defense against dangerous plants and animals.