Part1: Explorers and exploiters in the age of plenty: Chapter 1: The end of innocence Chapter 2: Early origins of intensive sea fishing Chapter 3: New Found Lands Chapter 4: Rediscovery of plenty in New World estuaries Chapter 5: Plunder of the Caribbean Chapter 6: The age of merchant adventurers Chapter 7: Global expansion of whaling Chapter 8: To the ends of the earth for seals Chapter 9: The great fisheries of Europe Chapter 10: The first trawling revolution Chapter 11: The dawn of industrial fishing Part 2: The modern era of industrial fishing Chapter 12: The inexhaustible sea Chapter 13: Bering Sea revisited Chapter 14: Emptying European seas Chapter 15: The Grand Banks no longer grand Chapter 16: Slow death of an estuary - Chesapeake Bay Chapter 17: Ghost reefs in the Caribbean Chapter 18: Shifting environmental baselines in the Gulf of California Chapter 19: Serial depletion on the Pacific coast Chapter 20: Hunting the high plains of the open sea Chapter 21: Penetrating the last great wilderness Chapter 22: No place left to hide Part 3: The once and future ocean: Chapter 23: Where to from here: Barbequed jellyfish or swordfish steak? Chapter 24: Reinventing fishery management Chapter 25: Opening a window to the past with marine reserves Chapter 26: Looking forward: A global network of marine protected areas.