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"For 250 years encrusted wonders have been turning up in fishermen's nets: everything imaginable from prehistoric animal bones to priceless Roman statues. Fishing trawlers annually sweep an area equivalent in size to half the world's continental shelves. Everything in the wake of these bulldozers of the deep is battered. A devastating trail of smashed shipwrecks runs from the North Sea to Malaysia.The profound threat of the global fishing industry remains a black hole in marine archaeology, poorly understood and unmanaged. Fishing and Shipwreck Heritage is the first global analysis of the threat of bottom fishing to underwater cultural heritage, examining the diversity, scale and implications on endangered finds and sites. Throughout, the key questions of whether it is too late to save the planet's three million wrecks and how sustainable management is achievable are debated."-- For 250 years encrusted wonders have been turning up in fishermen's nets: everything imaginable from prehistoric animal bones to priceless Roman statues. Fishing trawlers annually sweep an area equivalent in size to half the world's continental shelves. Everything in the wake of these bulldozers of the deep is battered. A devastating trail of smashed shipwrecks runs from the North Sea to Malaysia. The profound threat of the global fishing industry remains a black hole in marine archaeology, poorly understood and unmanaged. Fishing and Shipwreck Heritage is the first global analysis of the threat of bottom fishing to underwater cultural heritage, examining the diversity, scale and implications on endangered finds and sites. Throughout, the key questions of whether it is too late to save the planet's three million wrecks and how sustainable management is achievable are debated

Underwater archaeology. --- Shipwrecks. --- Dredging (Fisheries) --- Cultural property --- Historic preservation. --- Archéologie sous-marine --- Naufrages --- Dragage (Pêches) --- Biens culturels --- Patrimoine historique --- Protection. --- Protection --- Archéologie sous-marine --- Dragage (Pêches) --- Preservation, Historic --- Preservationism (Historic preservation) --- Cultural property, Protection of --- Cultural resources management --- Cultural policy --- Historic preservation --- Bottom trawling --- Dredge fisheries --- Dredge fishing --- Dredge harvesting --- Harvesting, Dredge --- Trawling, Bottom --- Bottom fishing --- Shellfish fisheries --- Marine disasters --- Wrecks --- Adventure and adventurers --- Marine accidents --- Voyages and travels --- Collisions at sea --- Archaeology, Submarine --- Marine archaeology --- Maritime archaeology --- Nautical archaeology --- Submarine archaeology --- Archaeology --- Underwater exploration --- Marine archaeologists --- Government policy --- Underwater cultural heritage