Fishing and Shipwreck Heritage: Marine Archaeology's Greatest Threat?

by Sean A. Kingsley

Book Overview

For 250 years encrusted wonders have been turning up in fishermen's nets: everything imaginable from prehistoric animal bones to priceless Roman statues. Fishing trawlers annually sweep an area equivalent in size to half the world's continental shelves. Everything in the wake of these bulldozers of the deep is battered. A devastating trail of smashed shipwrecks runs from the North Sea to Malaysia.

The profound threat of the global fishing industry...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350037060
• ISBN13: 9781350037069
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"