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The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat
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Charles Clover
Ninety percent of the large fish in the world's oceans have disappeared in the past half century, causing the collapse of fisheries along with numerous fish species. In this hard-hitting, provocative expose, Charles Clover reveals the dark underbelly and hidden costs of putting food on the table at home and in restaurants. From the Tsukiji fish ...
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Swimming in Circles: Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans
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Paul Molyneaux
Expanding on the author's year-long study of the shrimp and salmon aquaculture industries as an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow, the book lays out the rationale behind aquaculture development: increasing the world food supply and creating jobs in areas hard hit by declining landings in wild fisheries. However, reality is something else ...
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The Great Gulf: Fisherman, Scientists and the Struggle to Revive the World's Greatest Fishery
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David Dobbs
The author studies the histories of fisheries off the Gulf of Maine, and how the populations of cod, flounder, and other species that had dominated the region seemed to lose the ability to recover following annual harvests. Maps.
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The Worldwide Crisis in Fisheries: Economic Models and Human Behavior
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Colin W Clark
The world's marine fisheries are in trouble, as a direct result of overfishing and the overcapacity of fishing fleets. Despite intensive management efforts, the problems still persist in many areas, resulting in many fisheries being neither sustainable nor profitable. Using bio-economic models of commercial fisheries, this book demonstrates that ...
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Inland Fisheries Management in North America
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Christopher C Kohler
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Mathematical Bioeconomics: The Optimal Management of Renewable Resources
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Colin W Clark
This book is from the "Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series". "The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series" consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged softcover volumes, "Wiley" hopes to extend the lives of these works by making ...
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The plundered seas : can the world's fish be saved?
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Michael Berrill
Many environmentalists believe that the world's over-exploited and ailing oceans will soon replace tropical rain forests as the most pressing global ecological issue. With cogent analysis and specific suggestions for reform, THE PLUNDERED SEAS is a timely and important contribution to the search for solutions to this important worldwide problem. ...
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Fish for All: An Oral History of Multiple Claims and Divided Sentiments on Lake Michigan
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Michael J Chiarappa, Kristin M Szylvian
The contentious claims of groups seeking to use Lake Michigan's fisheries resources were at the centre of modern America's emerging environmental politics in the middle of the 20th century. This text contextualizes the shared experiences that shape each group's collective memory.
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Crisis in the World's Fisheries: People, Problems, and Policies
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James R McGoodwin
This popular course has been revised according to the December 1999 specifications for the CAE exam. It provides a thorough preparation for candidates, emphasising skills development, pronunciation, vocabulary extension, functional language and style. - It contains a wide variety of authentic reading texts and listening material on engaging and ...
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Fish Population Dynamics
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J A Gulland
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Management of lakes and ponds
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George W. Bennett
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The Management of Marine Regions: The North Pacific: An Analysis of Issues Relating to Fisheries, Marine Transportation, Marine Scientific Research, and Multiple Use Conditions and Conflicts
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Edward L Miles
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Hierarchical Perspectives on Marine Complexities
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Professor Spencer Apollonio
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Dead Reckoning: Confronting the Crisis in Pacific Fisheries
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Terry Glavin
Abundant fish along North America's West Coast Coast have nurtured rich and diverse cultures for centuries. But today millions of sockeye salmon routinely seem to "disappear" from the Fraser River, chinook salmon populations are collapsing, the abalone fishery is one of several that has been shut down and oolichan populations are in dramatic ...
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The Biomass Spectrum: A Predator-Prey Theory of Aqautic Production
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Stephen R Kerr, Lloyd Merlin Dickie
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Fisheries Biology, Assessment and Management
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Michael King
This excellent second edition of "Fisheries Biology, Assessment and Management", has been fully updated and expanded, providing a book which is an essential purchase for students and scientists studying, working or researching in fisheries and aquatic sciences. In the same way that excessive hunting on land has threatened terrestrial species, ...
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Freshwater fisheries management
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Robin G Templeton (Editor)
This book was written as a practical guide for anyone involved in freshwater fisheries management in temperate regions. Although it is primarily concerned with the British Isles, the principles set out apply in many other countries. The Severn-Trent Water Authority is one of the largest water authorities in Britain and is unusual in that its area ...
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Toxic Contamination in Large Lakes, Volume II
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N W Schmidtke
Every notable aspect of "Toxic Contamination in Large Lakes" is examined by known experts from every continent. Authors represent the U.S. and Canada, Argentina, Sweden, USSR, Israel, Great Britain, Japan, China, The Netherlands, Germany, Kenya and Austria. Authors represent the entire spectrum - academia, government and industry. The first ...
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American fish and wildlife policy the human dimension
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Mangun
These eleven original essays by leading wildlife management and public policy scholars deal with policy issues, management perspectives, and the public attitudes about wildlife that shape the world of the wildlife manager. Part 1 contains William R. Mangun's introductory essay "Fish and Wildlife Policy Issues" and Daniel J. Decker et al.'s "Toward ...
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Fishery Development Experiences
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W H L Allsopp
The author's career has spanned 36 years of direct professional involvement in fisheries development operations in developing countries. He has left his imprint on fisheries activities of key programmes in Africa, South East Asia, Latin America and the Carribean, since he has been involved in the practical grass-roots operations in some of the ...
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Deep Demersal Fish & Fisheries
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Nigel R Merrett (Preface by), Richard L Haedrich (Preface by)
This book deals with the bottom-living fishes of the world's largest ecosystem, the deep-sea. After a brief review of the oceanographic setting, the diversity and ecology of this unique ichthyofauna are considered in detail. The book goes on to deal explicitly with slope fisheries, both developed and developing. The interaction of the ecology of ...
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Ecology and Management of Atlantic Salmon
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Derek Mills
The Alantic salmon (Salmo salar) is a fish of major biological interest and economic importance. Recent years have witnessed major advances in the understanding of the many facets of the biology, ecology and management of this fish. The author, Dr Derek Mills, covers all major aspects of the atlantic salmon throughout its geographical range in the ...
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Fisheries Ecology and Management
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Carl J Walters, Steven J D Martell
Quantitative modeling methods have become a central tool in the management of harvested fish populations. This book examines how these modeling methods work, why they sometimes fail, and how they might be improved by incorporating larger ecological interactions. Fisheries Ecology and Management provides a broad introduction to the concepts and ...
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Creative Governance: Opportunities for Fisheries in Europe
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Martijn Van Vliet (Editor), Svein Jentoft (Editor), Professor Jan Kooiman (Editor)
This text sets out to develop new ideas on the development of fisheries in Europe. The scholarly and political attention for fisheries in general within Europe is predominantly focused on problems of controlling catch. In this book, it is not the problems of harvesting which are taken as the starting point, but opportunities in fisheries as a ...
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Marine Fisheries Ecology
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Simon Jennings, Michel J Kaiser, John D Reynolds
This topical and exciting textbook describes fisheries exploitation, biology, conservation and management, and reflects many recent and important changes in fisheries science. These include growing concerns about the environmental impacts of fisheries, the role of ecological interactions in determining population dynamics, and the incorporation of ...
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