Historical Perspectives of Fisheries Exploitation in the Indo-Pacific

<p>1. Introduction: Historical Perspectives of Fisheries Exploitation in the Indo-Pacific.- 2. Unsettled Seas: Towards a History of Marine Animal Populations in the Central Indo-Pacific.- 3. Changing practice in the Madras marine fisheries: legacies of the Fish Curing Yards.- 4. History of shark fishing in Indonesia.- 5. A history of whaling in the Philippines: A glimpse of the past and current distribution of whales.- 6. Brackish water shrimp farming and the growth of aquatic monocultures in coastal Bangladesh.- 7. Evolution and development of the Taiwanese offshore tuna fishery.- 8. History of industrial tuna fishing in the Pacific Islands.- 9. Southern Bluefin Tuna: a contested history.- 10. The NSW steam trawl fishery on the south-east continental shelf of Australia, 1915-1961.- 11.Exploiting Green and Hawksbill Turtles in Western Australia: the Commercial Marine Turtle Fishery.- 12. Shifting baselines or shifting currents: an environmental history of fish and fishing in the south-west capes region of Western Australia.- 13. Shark Bay snapper: science, policy, and the decline and recovery of a marine recreational fishery.- 14. Conclusion: Learning from Asian and Indo-Pacific Fisheries History.</p>