Author: Marcel Adolphe HérubelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Sea Fisheries, Their Treasures and Toilers
Author: Marcel Adolphe HérubelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Sea Fisheries, Their Treasures and Toilers
Author: Marcel Adolphe HérubelPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781290414548
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Sea Fisheries, Their Treasures and Toilers
Author: The Sea Fisheries
Author: James Travis JenkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: The Annual Index to the Times
Author: Readers' Guide
Author: The Unnatural History of the Sea
Author: Callum RobertsPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1597265772
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
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 Island 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 eleventh century in medieval Europe. Roberts explores this long and colorful history of commercial fishing, taking readers around the world and through the centuries to witness the transformation of the seas. Drawing on firsthand accounts of early explorers, pirates, merchants, fishers, and travelers, the book recreates the oceans of the past: waters teeming with whales, sea lions, sea otters, turtles, and giant fish. The abundance of marine life described by fifteenth century seafarers is almost unimaginable today, but Roberts both brings it alive and artfully traces its depletion. Collapsing fisheries, he shows, are simply the latest chapter in a long history of unfettered commercialization of the seas. The story does not end with an empty ocean. Instead, Roberts describes how we might restore the splendor and prosperity of the seas through smarter management of our resources and some simple restraint. From the coasts of Florida to New Zealand, marine reserves have fostered spectacular recovery of plants and animals to levels not seen in a century. They prove that history need not repeat itself: we can leave the oceans richer than we found them.
The Book Monthly
Author: James MilnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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