Fisheries and related industries

This is the narrative of a harpooner in the whale-ship Charles W Morgan, whose four-year voyage in 1849-1853 took him from New Bedford, Massachusetts, to the South Pacific and on around the world.

Full of unusual characters, mischief, camaraderie, and testosterone-fueled man gossip.

An action-packed story of adventure and survival in one of the planets most treacherous places.

A lighthearted and informative narrative about the history of herring and our love affair with the silver darlings.

South Street is Barbara G.

The most complete guide to fishing fliesDescribes every type of fly - freshwater and saltwaterCovers flies from around the worldEvery fly is illustrated with a specially taken photographFlies are tied by some of the world's most famous fly-tiersCollins Fishing Flies is the encyclopaedic guide to the huge range of flies now being used by the modern fly-fisherman, whether they are fishing for the traditional quarry of salmon and trout, chasing bonefish on the tropical flats of the Caribbean, or stalking pike in the cold fens of East Anglia, and everything in between.

A fascinating journey into the extraordinary world of the king of fish: the salmon.

What has been the dish of kings, the subject of myths and the traveller of epic and mysterious journeys?

Declines in the abundance of salmon in the Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim (AYK) region of western Alaska in the late 1990s and early 2000s created hardships for the people and communities who depend on this resource.

Coastal farming and ocean ranching of marine fish, shellfish, crustaceans, and seaweed are a major and growing industry worldwide.

In the United States (U.

Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Award, American Society for Environmental History

In The Fishermen's Frontier, David Arnold examines the economic, social, cultural, and political context in which salmon have been harvested in southeast Alaska over the past 250 years.

Toward a Sustainable Whaling Regime

Following the removal of the gray whale from the Endangered Species list in 1994, the Makah tribe of northwest Washington State announced that they would revive their whale hunts; their relatives, the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation of British Columbia, shortly followed suit.

Before commercial whaling was outlawed in the 1980s, diplomats, scientists, bureaucrats, environmentalists, and sometimes even whalers themselves had attempted to create an international regulatory framework that would allow for a sustainable whaling industry.

As Four Thousand Hooks opens, an Alaskan fishing schooner is sinking.

Winner of the 2014 Albert Corey Prize from the American Historical AssociationWinner of the 2013 Hal Rothman Award from the Western History AssociationWinner of the 2013 John Lyman Book Award in the Naval and Maritime Science and Technology category from the North American Society for Oceanic HistoryFor centuries, borders have been central to salmon management customs on the Salish Sea, but how those borders were drawn has had very different effects on the Northwest salmon fishery.

An analysis of how responsive governance has shaped the evolution of global fisheries in cyclical patterns of depletion and rebuilding dubbed the “management treadmill.

Over the past twenty years considerable public attention has been focused on the decline of marine fisheries, the sustainability of world fish production, and the impacts of fishing on marine ecosystems.

Over the past twenty years considerable public attention has been focused on the decline of marine fisheries, the sustainability of world fish production, and the impacts of fishing on marine ecosystems.

This handbook is the most comprehensive and interdisciplinary work on marine conservation and fisheries management ever compiled.

Ecosystem-based fishery management (EBFM) is rapidly becoming the default approach in global fisheries management.

Over the past several decades there has been increasing interest in, and concern about, the economics of the world's capture fishery resources.

While there has been increasing interest in recent years in the welfare of farm animals, fish are frequently thought to be different.

While there has been increasing interest in recent years in the welfare of farm animals, fish are frequently thought to be different.

This advanced text focuses on the uses of distance sampling to estimate the density and abundance of biological populations.

This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ocean science and the big truth of how our insatiable appetite for bluefin transformed a cottage industry into a global dilemma.