Screen LibraryOceans past：management insights from the history of marine animal populations
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| Group Author: | ; ; ; |
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| Published: |
Earthscan,
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| Publisher Address: | London |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Earthscan research editions |
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| Carrier Form: | xxvi, 223 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781844075270 (hardback) 1844075273 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | S937 |
| CLC: | S937 |
| Call Number: | S937/O159 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- 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. |