Fish Markets and Fishermen: The Economics of Overfishing

by Michael Weber, Robert Wieland, Suzanne Iudicello

'Part primer, part field report, part textbook, this is an intelligent synthesis pulled together by people who have paid their dues on the front lines of marine conservation.' Carl Safina, Ph.D, author of Song for the Blue Ocean An account of one of the world's crucial resource issues. The authors argue that the decline in fish stocks and collapse of fisheries is primarily economic - current incentives offer fishermen little alternative. They offer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853836516
• ISBN13: 9781853836510
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"