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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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014. |
| Series: | MARE Publication Series,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8727-7 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.