Oceans Past

Dr David J. Starkey is Reader in Maritime History at the University of Hull. He has published extensively on various maritime themes, including fisheries and marine environmental history. Professor Poul Holm is Rector of Roskilde University. A highly regarded historian, he is Chair of the HMAP Executive Committee and a member of the CoML Scientific Steering Committee. Michaela Barnard is Research Fellow in the Maritime Historical Studies Centre, University of Hull. As well as teaching and researching marine environmental history, she has published widely on fisheries and shipping history.

'Oceans Past is a fascinating book that addresses the history of fisheries resources [...]. It applies lessons from the past to describe the causes and consequences of changes in the marine environment, and to address improved management of ocean fisheries.' A. K. Volety, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA'Informative and engaging' Oceanography'A fascinating book... Recommended' Choice

• Foreword: Future Knowledge of Life in Oceans Past * Oceans Past: History Meets Marine Science * Invasive or Native? The Case History of the Common Periwinkle Snail (Littorina littorea) in Northeast North America * Social Conflict, Over-Fishing and Disease in the Florida Sponge Fishery, 1849-1939 * Quite the Choicest Protein Dish : The Costs of Consuming Seafood in American Restaurants, 1850-2006 * Baiting Our Memories: The Impact of Offshore Technology Change on Inshore Species Around Cape Cod, 1860-1895 * Mapping Historic Fishing Grounds in the Gulf of Maine and Northwest Atlantic Ocean * There She Blew! Yankee Sperm Whaling Grounds, 1760-1920 * Depletion within a Decade: The American 19th-Century North Pacific Right Whale Fishery * Sperm Whale Catches and Encounter Rates during the 19th and 20th Centuries: An Apparent Paradox * Understanding the Dynamics of Fisheries and Fish Populations: Historical Approaches from the 19th Century * A Political History of Maximum Sustained Yield, 1945-1955 * Afterword: Lost and Found in the Past * Index