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This open access book focuses on the destruction of our Ocean Heritage from bottom trawling. It brings together the natural and cultural sides of the marine environment to further our understanding of the importance of this heritage, how it is threatened by activities such as bottom trawling, and provides recommendations, such as a moratorium in particularly vulnerable areas that are currently unprotected. It is a unique publication in integrating cultural heritage into a discussion where the primary focus has been the destruction of natural heritage
The book is divided into three sections that discuss, respectively, the international legal context, history and ecological impact of bottom trawling, case studies highlighting the impact of these destructive activities on underwater cultural heritage, and finally recommended future steps and how to use the damage presented here to halt future devastation. This book is a valuable tool for resource managers and representatives of governments and international organizations in their efforts to establish the moratoria called for. This book is also of interest to educators, archaeologists and practitioners working in the field of underwater cultural heritage.
This is an open access book.
List of contents
Foreword: The importance of integrating cultural heritage into the UN Ocean Decade.- 1. Introduction.- 2. History of Trawling and Ecological Impact.- 3. The Duty to Protect Our Ocean Heritage from Bottom Trawling.- 4. Quantification of bottom trawl damage to ancient shipwrecks: A case study from the coastal waters of Turkey.- 5. Wreck sites as systems disrupted by trawling.- 6. Multi-use and Multi-vocal Challenges of Preserving Underwater Cultural Heritage in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.- 7. Underwater Cultural Heritage and Fishing Communities: safeguarding heritage and safeguarding fishers.- 8. Beneath a Façade: The Unscientific Justification of Treasure Salvage.- 9. Conclusion: Looking Forward.
About the author
Charlotte Jarvis is a maritime archaeologist and historian with degrees from Texas A&M and Durham University. She works with The Ocean Foundation as an underwater cultural heritage consultant highlighting how Underwater cultural heritage and natural heritage are connected and must be preserved. Through working with TOF for more than a year on a number of projects, including helping edit and write a chapter of a cultural heritage legal book with Ole Varmer, research that was presented to the International Seabed Authority on deep-seabed mining and its impact on archaeology, and research into UCH laws. Her previous work has focused on marine climate change, with an interest in early modern sailors' beliefs and how we can use history to inform environmental policies and concentrated her university coursework on marine policy and coastal resiliency planning.
She currently holds a research position at Het Scheepvaartmuseum (National Maritime Museum) in Amsterdam. Here, she worked on studying Dutch sailors' alcohol consumption and how it impacted their reputations. This resulted in a number of peer-reviewed publications, presentations, and an exhibition in the museum. She is now researching Dutch wooden shipbuilding and underwater archaeology, with an active role in a number of upcoming exhibitions, book chapters, and further presentations.
