I was reading the call of the disciples in Matthew, and had some questions: The Sea of Galilee isn’t very big (at least by our Canadian standards…). With a large human population around it for thousands of years, wouldn’t it get fished out? How is the fish population impacted by such fishing compared with an unfished lake (eg kind and size of fish)? Is there still fishing there today?
Mark Jokinen
Thank you both for info and pictures. Interesting fish, more prehistoric looking than ones I am familiar with. The Sea is beautiful.
As usual, the more I think about it, the more questions occur to me (I am not specifically asking for answers to them from anyone. I could research them myself, but am too lazy… as George Bernard Shaw once said, questions are more interesting than answers. I think it was him…).
I wonder if the Sea is somewhat salty or drinkable fresh? I think it has inflows and outflows (the Jordan?), but also there is the water use issue today (very tense and problematic among the various countries, as I understand it), and maybe global warming issue (could the Sea shrink if the area gets drier? Like the Aral Sea?). I would love to go there someday.
Mark Jokinen
I also got to see the Jordan river. I was shocked how small it was. Small enough to almost jump over in many spots.
I know the Dead Sea has been becoming substantially smaller. I think someone said that they Jordan river use to go into the Dead Sea, but now they have stopped that.
Definitely worth going to Israel. I went on a study tour, and though I’m not a Christian, it was one of the best trips I’ve been on!
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