Unsettled Seas: Towards a History of Marine Animal Populations in the Central Indo-Pacific

摘要: A central theme of this book concerns the importance historical perspectives for understanding challenges that confront marine capture fisheries in twenty-first century. This chapter explores relation to Central Indo-Pacific, a body water lies at geographic and geopolitical heart different case studies brought together volume. The Indo-Pacific is one world’s principal biogeographic realms. It made up eastern Indian western Pacific oceans, seas linking two—the South China Sea, straits Southeast Asia, Coral waters separating Australia from Indonesia Papua New Guinea, Australia’s northern continental shelf. Here, I cover period similar timeframe book’s other chapters, which extends late nineteenth early was profound transformation about by intensification established advent new industrial fishing practices. My aims are two-fold: discuss some environmental historians working region; describe major patterns during under review, propelled centre global expansion fisheries.