Fisheries & Related Industries

As the ecosystem-based trend in fisheries management continues to be implemented worldwide, a thorough background of this new management approach a...

Government management of fisheries has been little short of disastrous. In many regions, valuable fish stocks have collapsed as a result of overfis...

For generations, coastal fishermen, working at the very fringe between land and sea, have fished salmon and herring using methods passed down from ...

Many historic houses decorating Skip Finley's native Martha's Vineyard were originally built by whaling captains. Whether in his village of Oak Blu...

TRAWLERMAN is the memoir of Jimmy Buchan - skipper of the Amity II, a fishing vessel based in Peterhead, Europe's largest fishing port. Jimmy's sto...

December, 2014: In the forbidding waters off Antarctica, Captain Hammarstedt of the Bob Barker embarks on a voyage unlike any seen before. Across t...

The United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement (UNFSA) represents a major international effort to improve fisheries governance, resource recovery, and su...

Knowing next to nothing about fishing, Rosemary McGuire signed on to the crew of the Arctic Storm in Homer, Alaska, looking for money and experienc...

Scottish Arctic Whaling brings to light a previously little-known but important Scottish industry. The author's extensive use of original sources s...

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

For centuries Britains commercial fishermen have ventured out into the ravages of the surrounding seas to bring fish back both to supply a home mar...

This is the narrative of a harpooner in the whale-ship Charles W Morgan, whose four-year voyage in 1849-1853 took him from New Bedford, Massachuset...

In the early 1990s the collapse of the Atlantic groundfish stocks signaled the destruction of life in the seas, but it also threw 40,000 people out...

The first large-scale study of the important, but as yet largely invisible, group of Icelandic women who live on the sea -- their lives, contributi...

Fisheries management draws on fisheries science in order to find ways to protect fishery resources so sustainable exploitation is possible. This bo...

Due to the intensity of research in the field warm water fish nutrition in Egypt, the decision was made to conduct the last fish nutrition in publi...

The East Anglian herring fishing industry can trace its roots back to before the Norman's arrived in 1066. The main ports, and great rivals were Gr...

This extraordinary book is the result of over three decades of Dr. Krisna Rungruangsak-Torrissens career at the Institute of Marine Research in Nor...

The whaling bark Progress was a New Bedford ship transformed into a whaling museum for Chicago's 1893 world's fair. Traversing waterways across Nor...

Pacific salmon are among the dominant fish groups and the main consumers of forage resources in the upper layer of the subarctic Pacific. In the la...

Today, aquaculture in federal waters is among the most talked-about technologies associated with the future of seafood production in the United Sta...

Since Britain joined the European Economic Community in the mid-1970s, the fishing industry along our coasts has been under pressure from overfishi...

The fishing industry has always been important to Britain. From the deepsea trawlers to the traditional craft that sailed around the coast, the har...

A trawlermans life was hard, often up against bad weather, rough seas and black frosts, although on calm days it was a pleasure to be at sea. In th...

Responsible fisheries management is of increasing interest to the scientific community, resource managers, policy makers, stakeholders and the gene...

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) developed the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction (ALWTR) plan to protect endangered large whales from...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has conducted an assessment in response to national and international concerns that over...

On 17 June 2014, the White House released a Presidential Memorandum entitled Establishing a Comprehensive Framework to Combat Illegal, Unreported,...

Mollusca is one of the largest phyla in the animal kingdom, over 50,000 species having been described, thus comprising more than a half of the mari...