Fishing Grounds: Defining a New Era for American Fisheries Management

by H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment

Book Overview

Fisheries management today is highly contentious. The interests of fishers and fish processors, coastal communities, the government, and environmental organizations are often different and can even be mutually incompatible.

Fishing Grounds offers a comprehensive assessment of the legal, social, economic and biological context of marine fisheries management in the United States. Drawing on interviews with stakeholders from all sides of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559638044
• ISBN13: 9781559638043
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.0" x 9.0"