The Plundered Seas

Author : Michael Berrill
Publisher : Sierra Club Books for Children
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plundered Seas written by Michael Berrill and published by Sierra Club Books for Children. This book was released on 1997 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biologist Michael Berrill explores this simmering crisis with thoroughness and authority. The Plundered Seas opens with a lucid overview of world fisheries and their historical pattern of discovery, exploitation, depletion, and death. Berrill goes on to survey the evolution of international laws governing exclusive fishing zones, the efforts at governmental regulation of the fiercely independent industry, the problems with predicting stock size, and the connected implications for management.

Author : BARBARY.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Memoirs of Barbary, as connected with the plunder of the Seas; including a sketch of Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis ... and considerations of their present means of defence; and the original treaties entered into with them by King Charles II. written by BARBARY. and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Callum Roberts
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597265772
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unnatural History of the Sea written by Callum Roberts and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity can make short work of the oceans’ creatures. In 1741, hungry explorers discovered herds of Steller’s sea cow in the Bering Strait, and in less than thirty years, the amiable beast had been harpooned into extinction. It’s a classic story, but a key fact is often omitted. Bering Island was the last redoubt of a species that had been decimated by hunting and habitat loss years before the explorers set sail. As Callum M. Roberts reveals in The Unnatural History of the Sea, the oceans’ bounty didn’t disappear overnight. While today’s fishing industry is ruthlessly efficient, intense exploitation began not in the modern era, or even with the dawn of industrialization, but in the eleventh century in medieval Europe. Roberts explores this long and colorful history of commercial fishing, taking readers around the world and through the centuries to witness the transformation of the seas. Drawing on firsthand accounts of early explorers, pirates, merchants, fishers, and travelers, the book recreates the oceans of the past: waters teeming with whales, sea lions, sea otters, turtles, and giant fish. The abundance of marine life described by fifteenth century seafarers is almost unimaginable today, but Roberts both brings it alive and artfully traces its depletion. Collapsing fisheries, he shows, are simply the latest chapter in a long history of unfettered commercialization of the seas. The story does not end with an empty ocean. Instead, Roberts describes how we might restore the splendor and prosperity of the seas through smarter management of our resources and some simple restraint. From the coasts of Florida to New Zealand, marine reserves have fostered spectacular recovery of plants and animals to levels not seen in a century. They prove that history need not repeat itself: we can leave the oceans richer than we found them.

Author : H. De Vere Stacpoole
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sea Plunder written by H. De Vere Stacpoole and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sea Plunder is a novel by a prolific Irish writer Henry de Vere Stacpoole, author of Blue Lagune, and tens of other novels. This book tells the story of Captain Blood, an impetuous Irishman hired to skipper a cable-laying ship in a mysterious private venture.

Author : Henry De Vere Stacpoole
Publisher : New York ; Toronto : J. Lane Company c1917.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sea Plunder written by Henry De Vere Stacpoole and published by New York ; Toronto : J. Lane Company c1917.. This book was released on 1917 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Neville Williams
Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sea Dogs written by Neville Williams and published by George Weidenfeld & Nicholson. This book was released on 1975 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the daring exploits of the Elizabethan sea dogs who established England as the foremost maritime and colonial power in the 1500s and thus bequeathed the nation a heritage that would endure for many generations.

Author : Richard Ellis
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597265993
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Empty Ocean written by Richard Ellis and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Empty Ocean, acclaimed author and artist Richard Ellis tells the story of our continued plunder of life in the sea and weighs the chances for its recovery. Through fascinating portraits of a wide array of creatures, he introduces us to the many forms of sea life that humans have fished, hunted, and collected over the centuries, from charismatic whales and dolphins to the lowly menhaden, from sea turtles to cod, tuna, and coral. Rich in history, anecdote, and surprising fact, Richard Ellis’s descriptions bring to life the natural history of the various species, the threats they face, and the losses they have suffered. Killing has occurred on a truly stunning scale, with extinction all too often the result, leaving a once-teeming ocean greatly depleted. But the author also finds instances of hope and resilience, of species that have begun to make remarkable comebacks when given the opportunity. Written with passion and grace, and illustrated with Richard Ellis’s own drawings, The Empty Ocean brings to a wide audience a compelling view of the damage we have caused to life in the sea and what we can do about it. "

Author : Edgar A. Haine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mutiny on the High Seas written by Edgar A. Haine and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Bennet Brewster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wreckers written by Henry Bennet Brewster and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thornton Jenkins Hains
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Voyage of the Arrow to the China Seas written by Thornton Jenkins Hains and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: