Historical Perspectives of Fisheries Exploitation in the Indo-Pacific

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Historical Perspectives of Fisheries Exploitation in the Indo-Pacific is written by Joseph Christensen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9401787271 (ISBN 10) and 9789401787277 (ISBN 13).

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.