The mortal sea
Subtitle: fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail
By: W. Jeffrey Bolster
Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674047655
Subjects: Fisheries; History; Fishers
Other titles: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: the historic ocean; title: Depleted European seas and the discovery of America; title: Plucking the low-hanging fruit; title: The sea serpent and the mackerel jig; title: Making the case for caution; title: Waves in a troubled sea; title: An avalanche of cheap fish; title: Epilogue: changes in the sea; title: Appendix: figures; title: Abbreviations.