Maine and The Mortal Sea:
Taking Stock of the Past, Present and Future of Our Living Sea
A one-day conference hosted by the
History Department, School of Marine Sciences, and Sustainability Solutions Initiative at the University of Maine, Orono, and Maine Sea Grant
An interdisciplinary exchange based on
W. Jeffrey Bolster’s The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail (Harvard UP, 2012), winner of the American Historical Association’s 2013 Albert J. Beveridge Prize and James Rawley Prize in Atlantic History as well as Columbia University’s 2013 Bancroft Prize