| Description |
x, 208 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / David Suzuki -- 1. Boom and Bust: How Not to Do It -- 2. Who Fishes for What -- 3. The Amazing New Law of the Sea -- 4. Predicting the Unpredictable -- 5. Breaking the Rules -- 6. Wasted Fish and Destructive Gear -- 7. The Destruction of Coastal Habitats -- 8. The Efficient Solution -- 9. Comanagement: Buzzword for the Millennium -- 10. The Empty Banks -- 11. Straddling Stocks -- 12. Highly Migratory Tuna: Who Owns Them? -- 13. Salmon: The Greatest Challenge -- 14. Politics and the Pacific Coast of Asia -- 15. Taking Stock |
| Summary |
Many environmentalists believe that the world's overexploited and ailing oceans will soon replace tropical rainforests as the most pressing global ecology issue. Biologist Michael Berrill explores this simmering crisis with thoroughness and authority. The Plundered Seas opens with a lucid overview of world fisheries and their historical pattern of discovery, exploitation, depletion, and death. Berrill goes on to survey the evolution of international laws governing exclusive fishing zones, the efforts at governmental regulation of the fiercely independent industry, the problems with predicting stock size, and the connected implications for management. Berrill reviews the progress to date in addressing these critical concerns. Favorable developments in international agreements, notable strides in co-management, and new ideas for individual quotas and binding enforcement all offer reasonable hope that oceanic ecosystems can be sustained |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-202) and index |
| Subject |
Fishery law and legislation.
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Fishery management, International.
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Fishes -- Conservation.
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| LC no. |
97006192 |
| ISBN |
0871569450 (alk. paper) |
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