The Mortal Sea. Fishing the Atlantic in the age of sail
Details:
- Author(s) Bolster, W Jeffrey
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2012
- Pages 378pp; illus
- Publisher Belknap Press of Harvard University
- Place Published Cambridge MA
Topics:
- Name Environmental issues
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly and impassioned account of human impact on the North Atlantic over 1,000 years but mostly from the 16th century and during the evolution of industrial fishing. Has sections: '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'