Fishing for the past : casting nets and lines into Australia's early colonial history /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Pepperell, Julian G., author.
Imprint:	Dural Delivery Centre, NSW : Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd, 2018.
Description:	1 online resource (225 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Fishing -- Australia -- History. Fishers -- Australia. Aboriginal Australians -- Fishing. Fishery management -- Australia -- History. Fishes -- Australia. Fishers. Fishery management. Fishes. Fishing. Australia. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12021156

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ISBN:	9780648043959 0648043959 9780648043942 0648043940
Notes:	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 04, 2019).
Summary:	After long voyages, hungry crews needed to be fed. On board every ship were the keen fishermen, catching fish to eat, but also ready with a great fish tale. On some voyages there were the resident naturalists and artists, recording, sketching and painting each new species found - some familiar, some completely alien. For tens of thousands of years Aboriginal people had been fishing these waters with spears, hooks, nets and traps, and gathering shellfish from the beaches, rocks and reefs. These activities were of considerable interest to the early mariners and were recorded in the same journal.

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