This book is the first on the history of the marine fisheries of Southeast Asia. It takes as its central theme the movement of fisheries into new fishing grounds, particularly the diverse ecosystems that make up the seas of Southeast Asia. This process accelerated between the 1950s and 1970s in what...

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1. Verfasser:	Butcher, John G. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Singapore Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2004
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1850-2000 Geschichte Fisheries / Southeast Asia / History Fishery policy / Southeast Asia / History Seefischerei Südostasien
Online-Zugang:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	This book is the first on the history of the marine fisheries of Southeast Asia. It takes as its central theme the movement of fisheries into new fishing grounds, particularly the diverse ecosystems that make up the seas of Southeast Asia. This process accelerated between the 1950s and 1970s in what the author calls 'the great fish race'. Catches soared as the population of the region grew, demand from Japan and North America for shrimps and tuna increased, and fishers adopted more efficient ways of locating, catching, and preserving fish. But the great fish race soon brought about the severe depletion of one fish population after another, while pollution and the destruction of mangroves and coral reefs degraded fish habitats. Today the relentless movement into new fishing grounds has come to an end, for there are no new fishing grounds to exploit. The frontier of fisheries has closed. The challenge now is to exploit the seas in ways that preserve the diversity of marine life while providing the people of the region with a source of food long into the future
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Nov 2015)
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xxii, 442 pages)
ISBN:	9789812305404