Title The Firth of Forth : an environmental history / T.C. Smout and Mairi Stewart

Published Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2012

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS	508.316336 Smo/Fof		AVAILABLE
MELB	508.316336 Smo/Fof		AVAILABLE

Description xiv, 306 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.Hunting and Gathering -- 2.Fishing in a Firth of Plenty -- 3.Oyster Wars -- 4.Herring Boom and Herring Bust, 1820-1950 -- 5.Lines and Trawls -- 6.Traps and Nets in the Estuary -- 7.Pollution -- 8.Land Claim from the Sea -- 9.The Bass and its Gannets -- 10.The Isle of May and the Other Seabird Colonies -- 11.Seals: The Bone of Contention Subject Human ecology -- Scotland -- Forth, Firth of. Biodiversity -- Scotland -- Forth, Firth of. Natural history -- Scotland -- Forth, Firth of. SUBJECT Forth, Firth of (Scotland) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87001156 -- Environmental conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005384 Author Stewart, Mairi. ISBN 9781780270647 (hbk.) 178027064X (hbk.)

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