San Antonio College Library

"The management of coastal and ocean fisheries is highly contentious. Industry interests focus on maximizing catches, while conservationists and marine scientists have become increasingly concerned about dramatic declines in fish stocks and the health of ecosystems. Although charged with mediating among those interests, government agencies have themselves been torn between the mutually incompatible goals of exploiting the oceans for maximum economic...

"Analyzes the ramifications of overfishing for the United States by investigating how fishers, seafood processors, retailers, government officials, and others have worked together to respond to the crisis. Historian Mansel G. Blackford examines how these players took steps to make fishing in some American waters, especially in Alaskan waters, sustainable. Critical to these efforts, Blackford argues, has been government and industry collaboration in...

The oceans are heavily overfished, and the greatest challenges to effective fisheries management are not technical but political and economic. In this book, D.G. Webster describes how the political economy of fisheries has evolved and highlights patterns that are linked to sustainable transitions in specific fisheries. Grounded in the concept of responsive governance, Webster's interdisciplinary analysis goes beyond the conventional view of the "tragedy...

Examines the history of human use of the fish resources of the Great Lakes, and analyzes the changing nature of the fish populations, especially those that became popular in the commercial markets.

"The commercial cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador was once the most successful in the world. When it collapsed in 1992 -- causing the largest single-day layoff in Canadian history and irrevocable ecological damage -- fishermen, scholars, and scientists pointed to failures in management such as uncontrolled harvesting and not taking fishermen's concerns into account as likely culprits. "Examining the history of commercial cod fisheries in Newfoundland...