Scaling Fisheries: The Science of Measuring the Effects of Fishing, 1855 1955

by Tim D. Smith

Book Overview

Since the industrialization of fishing, fisheries scientists have been subject to intense economic and political pressures, which have affected the way the science has developed. The origins and effects of these pressures are traced in this 1994 book to concerns about determining the causes of fluctuations in fish and whale catches, and to resistance to regulation of fishing activity when populations are depleted. The development of partial theories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521038960
• ISBN13: 9780521038966
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"