@article{1479132,
      recid = {1479132},
      author = {Bolster, W. Jeffrey, },
      title = {The Mortal Sea : Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail  /},
      pages = {1 online resource (366 p.) :},
      abstract = {Since the Viking ascendancy in the Middle Ages, the  Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend upon it  for survival. And just as surely, people have shaped the  Atlantic. In his innovative account of this  interdependency, W. Jeffrey Bolster, a historian and  professional seafarer, takes us through a millennium-long  environmental history of our impact on one of the largest  ecosystems in the world. While overfishing is often thought  of as a contemporary problem, Bolster reveals that humans  were transforming the sea long before factory trawlers  turned fishing from a handliner's art into an industrial  enterprise. The western Atlantic's legendary fishing banks,  stretching from Cape Cod to Newfoundland, have attracted  fishermen for more than five hundred years. Bolster follows  the effects of this siren's song from its medieval European  origins to the advent of industrialized fishing in American  waters at the beginning of the twentieth century. Blending  marine biology, ecological insight, and a remarkable cast  of characters, from notable explorers to scientists to an  army of unknown fishermen, Bolster tells a story that is  both ecological and human: the prelude to an environmental  disaster. Over generations, harvesters created a quiet  catastrophe as the sea could no longer renew itself.  Bolster writes in the hope that the intimate relationship  humans have long had with the ocean, and the species that  live within it, can be restored for future generations.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479132},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067219},
}