Historical Perspectives of Fisheries Exploitation in the Indo-Pacific

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: Historical Perspectives of Fisheries Exploitation in the Indo-Pacific....Pages 1-12
Unsettled Seas: Towards a History of Marine Animal Populations in the Central Indo-Pacific....Pages 13-39
Changing Practice in the Madras Marine Fisheries: Legacies of the Fish Curing Yards....Pages 41-61
The History of Shark Fishing in Indonesia....Pages 63-81
A History of Whaling in the Philippines: A Glimpse of the Past and Current Distribution of Whales....Pages 83-105
Brackish Water Shrimp Farming and the Growth of Aquatic Monocultures in Coastal Bangladesh....Pages 107-132
Evolution and Development of the Taiwanese Offshore Tuna Fishery....Pages 133-152
History of Industrial Tuna Fishing in the Pacific Islands....Pages 153-171
Southern Bluefin Tuna: A Contested History....Pages 173-190
The NSW Steam Trawl Fishery on the South-East Continental Shelf of Australia, 1915–1961....Pages 191-210
Exploiting Green and Hawksbill Turtles in Western Australia: The Commercial Marine Turtle Fishery....Pages 211-230
Shifting Baselines or Shifting Currents? An Environmental History of Fish and Fishing in the South-West Capes Region of Western Australia....Pages 231-250
Shark Bay Snapper: Science, Policy, and the Decline and Recovery of a Marine Recreational Fishery....Pages 251-268
Conclusion: Learning from Asian and Indo-Pacific Fisheries history....Pages 269-272
Back Matter....Pages 273-276