| Description |
1 online resource (223 pages) |
| Series |
Earthscan research editions |
|
Earthscan research edition.
|
| Contents |
Foreword : future knowledge of life in oceans past / Jesse H. Ausubel -- 1. Oceans past : history meets marine science / David J. Starkey, Poul Holm and Michaela Barnard -- 2. Invasive or native? : the case history of the common periwinkle snail (Littorina littorea) in northeast North America / April M.H. Blakeslee -- 3. Social conflict, over-fishing and disease in the Florida sponge fishery, 1849-1939 / Loren McClenachan -- 4. 'Quite the choicest protein dish' : the costs of consuming seafood in American restaurants, 1850-2006 / Glenn A. Jones -- 5. Baiting our memories : the impact of offshore technology change on inshore species around Cape Cod, 1860-1895 / Matthew G. McKenzie -- 6. Mapping historic fishing grounds in the Gulf of Maine and northwest Atlantic Ocean / Stefan Claesson -- 7. There she blew! : Yankee sperm whaling grounds, 1760-1920 / John L. Bannister [and others] -- 8. Depletion within a decade : the American 19th-century North Pacific right whale fishery / Elizabeth A. Josephson, Tim D. Smith and Randall R. Reeves -- 9. Sperm whale catches and encounter rates during the 19th and 20th centuries : an apparent paradox / Tim D. Smith [and others] -- 10. Understanding the dynamics of fisheries and fish populations : historical approaches from the 19th century / Julia Lajus -- 11. A political history of maximum sustained yield, 1945-1955 / Carmel Finley -- Afterword. Lost and found in the past / Paul E. Waggoner |
| Summary |
'[A] fascinating volume which establishes marine environmental history as a major new discipline for academics as well as an exciting way to bring history and the natural world alive for the public.' ANDREW A. ROSENBERG UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 'The HMAP project is to be congratulated on this book which presents vivid evidence-based reconstructions of historical fisheries and the prolific ecosystems in which they were embedded.' TONY J. PITCHER UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA 'The ingenuity and scholarship of the authors allow us to see ... how human societies have depended on and influenced |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Fishery management.
|
|
Whaling -- Management
|
|
Marine resources -- Management.
|
|
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biological Diversity.
|
|
NATURE -- Animals -- Wildlife.
|
|
Fishery management
|
|
Marine resources -- Management
|
|
Whaling -- Management
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Starkey, David J. (David John), 1954- editor.
|
|
Holm, Poul, editor.
|
|
Barnard, Michaela, editor.
|
| ISBN |
9781849772105 |
|
184977210X |
|
9781435616356 |
|
1435616359 |
|
1281191116 |
|
9781281191113 |
|
9781136560361 |
|
113656036X |
|
9781136560316 |
|
1136560319 |
|
9781136560354 |
|
1136560351 |
|
9781138977396 |
|
113897739X |
|
