TY - BOOK ID - 77890457 TI - The Mortal Sea PY - 2012 SN - 0674070461 0674067215 9780674067219 9780674047655 0674047656 PB - Cambridge, MA DB - UniCat KW - Fisheries KW - Fishers KW - Fishery management KW - Marine biodiversity KW - Diversity, Marine biological KW - Marine biological diversity KW - Aquatic biodiversity KW - Fish management KW - Fisheries management KW - Fishery resources KW - Aquatic resources KW - Wildlife management KW - Fish counting towers KW - Overfishing KW - Anglers KW - Fishermen KW - Persons KW - Coastal fisheries KW - Commercial fisheries KW - Commercial fishing industry KW - Farms, Fish KW - Fish farms KW - Fishery industry KW - Fishery methods KW - Fishing industry KW - Freshwater fisheries KW - Inland fisheries KW - Large-scale fisheries KW - Marine fisheries KW - Marine recreational fisheries KW - Recreational fisheries KW - Sea fisheries KW - Sea fishing industry KW - Sport fisheries KW - Aquaculture KW - Wildlife utilization KW - Fishery sciences KW - Fishes KW - History. KW - Management KW - Atlantic Coast (New England) KW - Atlantic Coast (Canada) KW - East Coast (Canada) KW - Sports persons KW - Sportspersons UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77890457 AB - Since 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. ER -