04329nam 2200757Ia 450 991078592200332120230801225128.00-674-07046-10-674-06721-510.4159/harvard.9780674067219(CKB)2670000000273427(StDuBDS)AH24679104(SSID)ssj0000721259(PQKBManifestationID)11459871(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000721259(PQKBWorkID)10686623(PQKB)11778715(MiAaPQ)EBC3301136(DE-B1597)178018(OCoLC)1013955682(OCoLC)1037978910(OCoLC)1041990681(OCoLC)1046605203(OCoLC)1046997737(OCoLC)1049641348(OCoLC)1054881672(OCoLC)840445253(DE-B1597)9780674067219(Au-PeEL)EBL3301136(CaPaEBR)ebr10607084(OCoLC)812925487(EXLCZ)99267000000027342720120316d2012 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe mortal sea[electronic resource] fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail /W. Jeffrey BolsterCambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press20121 online resource (xi, 378 p., [20] p. of plates )ill., mapsFormerly CIP.Uk0-674-04765-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-333) and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --PREFACE --Prologue: The Historic Ocean --One: Depleted European Seas and the Discovery of America --Two: Plucking the Low-Hanging Fruit --Three: The Sea Serpent and the Mackerel Jig --Four: Making the Case for Caution --Five: Waves in a Troubled Sea --Six: An Avalanche of Cheap Fish --Epilogue: Changes in the Sea --APPENDIX --NOTES --GLOSSARY --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --INDEXSince 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.Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of SailFisheriesNorth Atlantic OceanHistoryFishersNorth Atlantic OceanHistoryFishery managementNorth Atlantic OceanHistoryMarine biodiversityNorth Atlantic OceanHistoryAtlantic Coast (New England)HistoryAtlantic Coast (Canada)HistoryFisheriesHistory.FishersHistory.Fishery managementHistory.Marine biodiversityHistory.639.209163/1Bolster W. Jeffrey140839MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785922003321The mortal sea3854496UNINA