Provident Sea

Name: Provident Sea
Price: 108.26 USD
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ISBN: 9780521257275

ISBN-10: 0521257271

ISBN-13: 9780521257275

Edition: 1988

Authors: D. H. Cushing

List price: $133.00

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The Provident Sea describes the history of fish stock management (including whales and seals). The book traces, on the basis of the original scientific material, the history of the management of "the provident sea" up to recent times when problems of over-exploitation have had dramatic effects upon stocks. The need for management arose mainly from the increasing industrialization of capture. Hence the preindustrial fisheries are covered, in particular the old cod fishery on the Grand Bank and the herring fishery in the North Sea, as an essential background to current problems. The origins of fisheries and whaling science are described, as is the development up to 1965 of the science and…

Book details

List price: $133.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/30/1988
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 340
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.17" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Preface


Units used in the text



Fisheries in prehistory and in antiquity



The preindustrial fisheries



The cod fishery off Newfoundland 1502-1938



The North Sea herring fishery



The first industrialization of fisheries



The great whales



The Pribilov fur seal fishery



The Newfoundland harp seal fishery



The origins of fisheries science



Institutions before the Second World War



Fisheries research 1945-65



Institutions between 1945 and 1965



The second industrialization



Fisheries research since 1965



Institutions since 1977



The provident sea


References


Index