Fisheries & Related Industries

The species of hake, making up the genus Merluccius, are commercially important and currently largely over exploited, with many stocks badly deplet...

This book discusses information on recent trends in fisheries biotechnology. It addresses various aspects, such as metagenomics, proteomics, surrog...

In the United States (U.S.), the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976, now known as the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Manage...

This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ...

After the Supreme Court of Canadas 1999 Marshall decision recognized Mikmaw fishers treaty right to fish, the fishers entered the inshore lobster f...

'A beautiful, heartfelt love letter to the sea, and a cherished industry. Ash is a force of nature, she's a testament to working hard and dreaming ...

Shifting Baselines explores the real-world implications of a groundbreaking idea: we must understand the oceans of the past to protect the oceans o...

The story of herring is entwined in the history of commercial fishing. For over two millennia, herring has been commercially caught and its importa...

Seafood draws on controversial themes in the interdisciplinary field of food studies, with case studies from different eras and geographic regions....

Fish have been a major component of our diet and it has been suggested that fish/seafood consumption contributed to the development of the human br...

Before commercial whaling was outlawed in the 1980s, diplomats, scientists, bureaucrats, environmentalists, and sometimes even whalers themselves h...

Before commercial whaling was outlawed in the 1980s, diplomats, scientists, bureaucrats, environmentalists, and sometimes even whalers themselves h...

Following the removal of the gray whale from the Endangered Species list in 1994, the Makah tribe of northwest Washington State announced that they...

Toward a Sustainable Whaling Regime

Eat more fish, the doctors say. But is the salmon you are consuming really healthy?  In the early 1970s, a group of scientists researched how to ma...

A lighthearted and informative narrative about the history of herring and our love affair with the silver darlings. Scots like to smoke or salt th...

Longhurst examines the proposition, central to fisheries science, that a fishery creates its own natural resource by the compensatory growth it ind...

This book examines the environmental, political, and economic history of Ireland's marine fisheries from 1400 to 1600. It combines a wide range o...

Until now, there has been only one source of data on global fishery catches: information reported to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U...