The Closing of the Frontier: A History of the Marine Fisheries of Southeast Asia, c.1850-2000

Title Page, Copyright Page

© 2004 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore Reproduced from The Closing of the Frontier: A History of the Marine Fisheries of Southeast Asia c. 18502000 , by John G. Butcher (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2004). This version was obtained electronically direct from the publisher on condition that copyright is not infringed. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the prior permission of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.Individual articles are available at © 2004 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) was established as an autonomous organization in 1968. It is a regional centre dedicated to the study of socio-political, security and economic trends and developments in Southeast Asia and its wider geostrategic and economic environment. The Institute’s research programmes are the Regional Economic Studies (RES, including ASEAN and APEC), Regional Strategic and Political Studies (RSPS), and Regional Social and Cultural Studies (RSCS). ISEAS Publications, an established academic press, has issued more than 1,000 books and journals. It is the largest scholarly publisher of research about Southeast Asia from within the region. ISEAS Publications works with many other academic and trade publishers and distributors to disseminate important research and analyses from and about Southeast Asia to the rest of the world. © 2004 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore INSTITUTE OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES Singapore JOHN G. BUTCHER © 2004 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore First published in Singapore in 2004 by ISEAS Publications Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Pasir Panjang, Singapore 119614 E-mail: publish@iseas.edu.sg • Website: http://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.© 2004 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore The responsibility for facts and opinions in this publication rests exclusively with the author and his interpretations do not necessarily reflect the views or the policy of the Institute or its supporters. ISEAS Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Butcher, John G. The closing of the frontier : a history of the marine fisheries of Southeast Asia, c.1850-2000. (Modern economic history of Southeast Asia) 1. Fisheries—Asia, Southeastern—History. I. Title. II. Series. SH307 A9B98 2004 ISBN 981-230-259-X (soft cover) ISBN 981-230-223-9 (hard cover) Typeset by International Typesetters Pte. Ltd. Printed in Singapore by Seng Lee Press Pte. Ltd. © 2004 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore To Jim Warren, Bob Elson, and Nick Knight, friends, colleagues, mentors © 2004 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore A MODERN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST ASIA (ECHOSEA) SERIES This series is intended to cover the current state of knowledge of the economic history of Southeast Asia through discrete single-author volumes, some country-based but most defined thematically. It aims to bridge the gap between economists and historians working in this underdeveloped field, and also conventional divides between contemporary, colonial, and pre-colonial periods. It lays a necessary foundation for political and social studies of an important region of the world. Emerging from a five-year project of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University, the series was published initially by Macmillan and its successor Palgrave. In 2003/04 it was transferred to ISEAS. Volumes remaining in print are available from ISEAS Publications.* General Editors Anthony Reid (Chair), Director, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore Anne Booth, Professor of Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London Pierre van der Eng, Associate Professor, School of Business and Information Management, Australian National University, Canberra Titles in the Series R.E. Elson The End of the Peasantry in Southeast Asia: A Social and Economic History of Peasant Livelihood, 1800–1990s J. Thomas Lindblad Foreign Investment in Southeast Asia in the Twentieth Century* Anne Booth The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A History of Missed Opportunities* John H. Drabble An Economic History of Malaysia, c.1800–1990: The Transition to Modern Economic Growth* Howard Dick and Peter Rimmer Cities, Transport and Communications: The Integration of Southeast Asia since 1850 Amarjit Kaur Wage Labour in Southeast Asia since 1840: Globalisation, the International Division of Labour, and Labour...