The unnatural history of the sea / Callum Roberts.
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Island Press/Shearwater Books,
c2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- pt. 1. Explorers and exploiters in the age of plenty
- ch. 1. The end of innocence
- ch .2. The origins of intensive fishing
- ch. 3. Newfound lands
- ch. 4. More fish than water
- ch. 5. Plunder of the Caribbean
- ch. 6. The age of merchant adventures
- ch. 7. Whaling : the first global industry
- ch. 8. To the ends of the Earth for seals
- ch. 9. The great fisheries of Europe
- ch. 10. The first trawling revolution
- ch. 11. The dawn of industrial fishing
- pt. 2. The modern era of industrial fishing
- ch. 12. The inexhaustible sea
- ch. 13. The legacy of whaling
- ch. 14. Emptying European seas
- ch. 15. The downfall of king cod
- ch 16. Slow death of an estuary : Chesapeake Bay
- ch .17. The collapse of coral
- ch. 18. Shifting baselines
- ch .19. Ghost habitats
- ch. 20. Hunting on the high plains of the open sea
- ch. 21. Violating the last great wilderness
- pt. 3. The once and future ocean
- ch. 22. No place left to hide
- ch. 23. Barbequed jellyfish or swordfish steak?
- ch. 24. Reinventing fishery management
- ch. 25. The return of abundance
- ch. 26. The future of fish
- Notes
- Index.