Unnatural History of the Sea

Name: Unnatural History of the Sea
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ISBN: 9781597261029

ISBN-10: 1597261025

ISBN-13: 9781597261029

Edition: 2007

Authors: Callum Roberts

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Humanity can make short work of the oceans' creatures. In 1741, hungry explorers discovered herds of Steller's sea cow in the Bering Strait, and in less than thirty years, the amiable beast had been harpooned into extinction. It's a classic story, but a key fact is often omitted. Bering Islannd was the last redoubt of a species that had been decimated by hunting and habitat loss years before the explorers set sail. As Callum M. Roberts reveals in THE UNNATURAL HISTORY OF THE SEA, the oceans' bounty didn't disappear overnight. While today's fishing industry is ruthlessly efficient, intense exploitation began not in the modern era, or even with the dawn of industrialization, but in the 11th…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 7/14/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 456
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.628




Explorers and exploiters in the age of plenty



The end of innocence



The origins of intensive fishing



Newfound lands



More fish than water



Plunder of the Caribbean



The age of merchant adventurers



Whaling : the first global industry



To the ends of the earth for seals



The great fisheries of Europe



The first trawling revolution



The dawn of industrial fishing



The modern era of industrial fishing



The inexhaustible sea



The legacy of whaling



Emptying european seas



The downfall of king cod



Slow death of an estuary : Chesapeake Bay



The collapse of coral



Shifting baselines



Ghost habitats



Hunting on the high plains of the open sea



Violating the last great wilderness



The once and future ocean



No place left to hide



Barbequed jellyfish or swordfish steak?



Reinventing fishery management



The return of abundance



The future of fish