Product Description: The North Atlantic is one of the most productive fishing regions in the world; it has been a major centre for research and development in technology and innovatory forms of management. But it is also a region sorely troubled by failure to sustain fish stocks and levels of fishing activity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume examines issues of property rights and regulatory systems at different levels in the hierarchy of management, from local inshore fisheries through coastal state jurisdiction, to international high-seas regimes. Common property rights pose one of the most pervasive problems for fisheries management, legitimizing exploitative behaviours among competing resource users and inhibiting the development of effective management regimes for sustainable fisheries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The present crisis in fisheries management has resulted not only from the uncertainty surrounding biological stock assessment but also from a collapse in confidence in the centralised regulatory systems. The established role of the biological sciences in formulating fisheries policies and strategies for challenged, and alternative systems are now firmly on the scientific and political agenda...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)