The Case of the Common Periwinkle Snail, Littorina littorea, in Northeast North America -- A. M. H. Blakeslee -- 3 Social Conflict, Overfishing and Disease in the Florida Sponge Fishery, 1849-1939 -- Loren McClenachan -- 4 uite the Choicest Protein Dish The Costs of Consuming Seafood in American Restaurants, 1850-2006 -- Glenn A. Jones -- 5 Baiting our Memories: The Impact of Offshore Technology Change on Inshore Species around Cape Cod, 1860-1895 -- Matthew G. McKenzie -- 6 Mapping Historic Fishing Grounds in the Gulf of Maine and Northwest Atlantic Ocean -- Stefan Claesson -- 7 There She Blew! Yankee Sperm Whaling Grounds, 1760-1920 -- John L. Bannister, Elizabeth A. Josephson, Randall R. Reeves & Tim D. Smith -- 8 Depletion within a Decade: The American Nineteenth-Century North Pacific Right Whale Fishery -- Elizabeth A Josephson, Tim D. Smith & Randall R. Reeves -- 9 Sperm Whale Catches and Encounter Rates in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: An Apparent Paradox -- Tim D. Smith, Randall R. Reeves, Elizabeth Josephson, Judith N. Lund & Hal Whitehead -- 10 Understanding the Dynamics of Fisheries and Fish Populations: Historical Approaches from the Nineteenth Century -- Julia Lajus -- 11 A Political History of Maximum Sustained Yield, 1945-1955 -- Carmel Finley -- Afterword: Lost and Found in the Past -- Paul E Waggoner.