A Short History of Britain's Fisheries
eBook - ePub

A Short History of Britain's Fisheries

Inshore and Deep Sea Fishing

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Short History of Britain's Fisheries

Inshore and Deep Sea Fishing

About this book

Wherever you fit into the debate about food - vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, flexitarian, or carnivore - you cannot argue against the fact that fish have influenced our diet for millennia, and, for many, continue to do so today. We are, after all, an island nation surrounded by seas that were once extremely rich and diverse in its variety of both fish and shellfish, and it's well known that early man was as much a hunter-gatherer on water as on land for fish are a great supplier of protein. Yet only in the last couple of centuries has fishing become an established occupation, and the last forty years has seen a multitude of change in what is now an industry. Outside the industry, little has been written about how this seafood is caught, landed and then reaches us, the consumer. We all know about fish and chip shops, but do we know the difference between a beam and otter trawl? What is the difference between a lobster pot and a lobster creel? Did you know oysters and salmon were once caught in such huge amounts they were regarded as poor man's food? We all like ambling around colorful fishing harbors gazing at the boats, but just how much do we know about those that go out in such a dangerous environment and bring back the catch? With fish much talked about in today's news, alongside the unhealthy state of the oceans, here we have the definitive guide to Britain's commercial fisheries.

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Information

Publisher
White Owl
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781399069564
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1 The Fish We’ve Learnt to Love
  7. Chapter 2 The Formidable Forms of Fishing
  8. Chapter 3 The Birth of Commercial Fishing
  9. Chapter 4 Herring in Decline, Whitefish on the Ascendancy
  10. Chapter 5 The Shellfish Industry
  11. Chapter 6 Fishermen at War
  12. Chapter 7 The Effects of Technology
  13. Chapter 8 The Variety of Fishing Vessels
  14. Chapter 9 The Various Landings of Fish
  15. Chapter 10 Fishermen and Society
  16. Chapter 11 Markets and Processing
  17. Chapter 12 Legislation and Politics
  18. Chapter 13 Miscellaneous
  19. Select Bibliography
  20. Glossary
  21. Endnotes