Oceans Past: Management Insights from the History of Marine Animal PopulationsPoul Holm, Michaela Barnard, David J. Starkey [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 marine living resources from periwinkles to whales. MIKE SINCLAIR, BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY This book exalts the surprisingly fruitful marriage of historians and marine scientists - a union that has proven to be one of the most exciting developments in ocean research in recent years. KATHERINE RICHARDSON, UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGENFor centuries the seas appeared to offer limitless supplies of food and other resources, their waters a cornucopia never to be exhausted. In more recent times, episodes such as the extreme exploitation and subsequent collapse of cod populations of the Grand Banks off Newfoundland have highlighted the fallaciousness of this view. Yet all too often the lessons from our historical interactions with marine animals are little known, let alone learned.Based on research for the History of Marine Animal Populations project, Oceans Past examines the complex relationship our forebears had with the sea and the animals that inhabit it. It presents eleven studies ranging from fisheries and invasive species to offshore technology and the study of marine environmental history, bringing together the perspectives of historians and marine scientists to enhance understanding of ocean management of the past, present and future. In doing so, it also highlights the influence that changes in marine ecosystems have upon the politics, welfare and culture of human societies. |
Contents
History Meets Marine Science | 1 |
Chapter 2 Invasive or Native? The Case History of the Common Periwinkle Snail Littorina littorea in Northeast North America | 7 |
Chapter 3 Social Conflict OverFishing and Disease in the Florida Sponge Fishery 18491939 | 25 |
The Costs of Consuming Seafood in American Restaurants 18502006 | 47 |
The Impact of Offshore Technology Change on Inshore Species Around Cape Cod 18601895 | 77 |
Chapter 6 Mapping Historic Fishing Grounds in the Gulf of Maine and Northwest Atlantic Ocean | 91 |
Chapter 7 There She Blew Yankee Sperm Whaling Grounds 17601920 | 109 |
Other editions - View all
Oceans Past: Management Insights from the History of Marine Animal Populations Poul Holm Limited preview - 2012 |
Oceans Past: Management Insights from the History of Marine Animal Populations Poul Holm Limited preview - 2012 |
Oceans Past: Management Insights from the History of Marine Animal Populations Poul Holm No preview available - 2016 |
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