Ireland's Ocean: A Natural History

This book sets out to engage the popular curiosity and concern for an economic region of seabed in the Atlantic, Celtic and Irish Seas, the Atlantic extending almost 500km from the coast to beyond the edge of the continental shelf. The book includes a description of this underwater landscape; a guide to its ecology from corals and plankton to whales, fish migrations, and the behavior of top predators; an account of the natural forces influencing the world of the sea and its interactions with climate, including currents, winds, and waves, and concludes with new directions in Ireland's marine research, including the international problems of fishery control, climate change, wind and wave power, and the need for care in the exploitation of all the ocean's resources. Illustrated in full color, Ireland's Ocean opens windows to the ocean's life and promise.