Historical Perspectives of Fisheries Exploitation in the Indo-Pacific.

Historical Perspectives of Fisheries Exploitation in the Indo-Pacific. Edited by Joseph Christensen ; Malcolm Tull - New York : Springer, @2014 - xv, 276p., illus., includes index - MARE publication series .

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, presents the case-studies completed through the History of Marine Animal Populations (HMAP) initiative. It examines the marine environmental history and historical marine ecology of the Indo-Pacific during a period that witnessed the dramatic escalation of industrial fishing in these seas

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1. Fisheries Indo-Pacific Region
2. Marine resources
3. Marine biodiversity conservation
4. Marine sciences