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Historical Perspectives of Fisheries Exploitation in the Indo-Pacific

The waters of the Indo-Pacific were at the centre of the global expansion of marine capture fisheries in the twentieth century, yet surprisingly little has been written about this subject from a historical perspective. This book, the first major study of the history of fishing in Asia and Oceania, p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Christensen, Joseph (Editor ), Tull, Malcolm (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Colección:MARE Publication Series, 12
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: Historical Perspectives of Fisheries Exploitation in the Indo-Pacific
  • 2. Unsettled Seas: Towards a History of Marine Animal Populations in the Central Indo-Pacific
  • 3. Changing practice in the Madras marine fisheries: legacies of the Fish Curing Yards
  • 4. History of shark fishing in Indonesia
  • 5. A history of whaling in the Philippines: A glimpse of the past and current distribution of whales
  • 6. Brackish water shrimp farming and the growth of aquatic monocultures in coastal Bangladesh
  • 7. Evolution and development of the Taiwanese offshore tuna fishery
  • 8. History of industrial tuna fishing in the Pacific Islands
  • 9. Southern Bluefin Tuna: a contested history
  • 10. The NSW steam trawl fishery on the south-east continental shelf of Australia, 1915-1961
  • 11.Exploiting Green and Hawksbill Turtles in Western Australia: the Commercial Marine Turtle Fishery
  • 12. Shifting baselines or shifting currents: an environmental history of fish and fishing in the south-west capes region of Western Australia
  • 13. Shark Bay snapper: science, policy, and the decline and recovery of a marine recreational fishery
  • 14. Conclusion: Learning from Asian and Indo-Pacific Fisheries History.