Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishery management
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Environmental and Ecosystem Histories in the Northwest Atlantic
Author: Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples
Author: Dale D. GoblePublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295801379
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
It can be said that all of human history is environmental history, for all human action happens in an environment—in a place. This collection of essays explores the environmental history of the Pacific Northwest of North America, addressing questions of how humans have adapted to the northwestern landscape and modified it over time, and how the changing landscape in turn affected human society, economy, laws, and values. Northwest Lands and Peoples includes essays by historians, anthropologists, ecologists, a botanist, geographers, biologists, law professors, and a journalist. It addresses a wide variety of topics indicative of current scholarship in the rapidly growing field of environmental history.
Interactions in the Marine Benthos
Author: Stephen J. HawkinsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110841608X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
A comprehensive account of how abiotic and biotic interactions shape patterns of coastal marine biodiversity and ecosystem processes globally.
Species Profiles
Author: Kevin H. KellyPublisher:
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Category : Atlantic herring
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Mortal Sea
Author: W. Jeffrey BolsterPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674070461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
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 his innovative account of this interdependency, W. Jeffrey Bolster, 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, Bolster 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. Bolster 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, Bolster 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. Bolster 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.
Report of the Twenty-second Session of the Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251057742
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Topics discussed at this meeting included options for enhancing regional fishery bodies and the FishCode Strategy for Improving Information on Status and Trends of Capture Fisheries partnership; a review of progress by member organisations; aquaculture statistics; issues related to vessel and port classification; fishery data quality indicators; and the status of FishStat Plus.
A Companion to Global Environmental History
Author: J. R. McNeillPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111897753X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past developments, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike. Combines temporal, geographic, thematic and contextual approaches from prehistory to the present day Explores environmental thought and action around the world, to give readers a cultural, intellectual and political context for engagement with the environment in modern times Brings together environmental historians from around the world, including scholars from South Africa, Brazil, Germany, and China
Journal of Northwest Atlantic Fishery Science
Author: Oceanic Histories
Author: David ArmitagePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108423183
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Freshly presents world history through its oceans and seas in uniquely wide-ranging, original chapters by leading experts in their fields.
Species Profiles
Author: Dennis R. LassuyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coastal ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description