Book Review: Oceans Past: Management Insights from the History of Marine Animal Populations

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 403-405
Author(s):  
Brian J. Payne
Keyword(s):  
Marine Animal ◽  
Animal Populations ◽  
History Of

The Exploited Seas

2001 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental History ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Marine Animal ◽  
Ecological Data ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Grand Banks ◽  
Animal Populations ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Function ◽  
Ecological Science

The book combines the approaches of maritime history and ecological science to explore the evolution of life-forms and eco-systems in the ocean from a historical perspective, in order to establish and develop the sub-discipline of marine environmental history. Documentary records relating to the human activity, such as fishing, plus naturally occurring paleo-ecological data are analysed in order to determine the structure and function of exploited ecosystems. The book is divided into four chapter groups, the first concerned with Newfoundland and Grand Banks’ fisheries, the second with the potential of historical sources to provide a history of marine animal populations, the third explores the development of fisheries in the southern hemisphere during the twentieth century, and the final section explores the limitations of data and existing analysis of whale populations. The epilogue reiterates the suggestion that collaboration between historians and biologists is the key to furthering the sub-discipline.

Epilogue

2001 ◽  
pp. 215-218
Author(s):  
Poul Holm ◽  
David J. Starkey ◽  
Tim D. Smith
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Research Program ◽  
York City ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Marine Animal ◽  
Marine Life ◽  
Animal Populations ◽  
Sloan Foundation ◽  
History Of

The workshop at which the papers that comprise this volume were presented also generated a research agenda for the "History of Marine Animal Populations (HMAP)" project. This agenda, in turn, formed the basis of a proposal that subsequently attracted financial support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (New York City). Having commenced in January 2001, the HMAP initiative provides an historical dimension to the "Census of Marine Life," a decade-long research program designed to assess and explain the diversity, distribution and abundance of marine life in the world's oceans....

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