عنوان

The mortal sea :

شابک

0674047656

شابک

9780674047655

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

The mortal sea :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail /

نام نخستين پديدآور

W. Jeffrey Bolster

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Cambridge, Mass. :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2012

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xi, 378 p. :

ساير جزييات

ill., maps ;

ابعاد

25 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-333) and index

متن يادداشت

Prologue : the historic ocean -- Depleted European seas and the discovery of America -- Plucking the low-hanging fruit -- The sea serpent and the mackerel jig -- Making the case for caution -- Waves in a troubled sea -- An avalanche of cheap fish -- Changes in the sea

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

Since the Viking ascendancy in the Middle Ages, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend upon it for survival. And just as surely, people have shaped the Atlantic. In this account of this interdependency, the author, a historian and professional seafarer, takes us through a millennium-long environmental history of our impact on one of the largest ecosystems in the world. While overfishing is often thought of as a contemporary problem, he reveals that humans were transforming the sea long before factory trawlers turned fishing from a handliner's art into an industrial enterprise. The western Atlantic's legendary fishing banks, stretching from Cape Cod to Newfoundland, have attracted fishermen for more than five hundred years. The author follows the effects of this siren's song from its medieval European origins to the advent of industrialized fishing in American waters at the beginning of the twentieth century. Blending marine biology, ecological insight, and a remarkable cast of characters, from notable explorers to scientists to an army of unknown fishermen, he tells a story that is both ecological and human: the prelude to an environmental disaster. Over generations, harvesters created a quiet catastrophe as the sea could no longer renew itself. The author writes in the hope that the intimate relationship humans have long had with the ocean, and the species that live within it, can be restored for future generations

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

9780674067219

عنوان اصلي به زبان ديگر

Atlantic in the Age of Sail

عنوان اصلي به زبان ديگر

Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail

موضوع مستند نشده

Fisheries-- North Atlantic Ocean-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Fishers-- North Atlantic Ocean-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Fishery management-- North Atlantic Ocean-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Atlantic Coast (Canada), History

موضوع مستند نشده

Atlantic Coast (New England), History

بدون عنوان

0

بدون عنوان

0

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Bolster, W. Jeffrey

تاريخ عمليات

20131119044045.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y