Fisheries & Related Industries

When fishing boats were numerous, Scotland was a wonderful place to see them. Even in later days, its still possible to see a hint of what used to ...

Fish is a superfood and is one of the best sources of quality animal proteins; besides, being a rich source of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs),...

This title was first published in 2002: This important collection of international research on fisheries economics offers a comprehensive source of...

In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world's ocean...

Focusing on the experiences of Thailand and Australia, this book examines the impact of trade-restrictive measures as related to the EUs regulation...

Ecology of Marine Fish offers updated reviews of the current knowledge on the ecology of marine fish. This book is an all-inclusive reference on th...

From the Galapagos to the depths of Patagonia and up along the stark desert coast of Chile, Listening to Sea Lions empathic ethnography carries the...

This book provides a comprehensive review of Area-Based Management Tools (ABMTs) used in fisheries or affecting their performance in relation to bi...

Fish Protein Hydrolysates: From Production to Food and Nutraceutical Industry Applications provides the most updated and comprehensive knowledge on...

First published in 1956, World Sea Fisheries gives a general survey of the sea fisheries of the world. It assesses their relative importance at a t...

Offering a practical exploration of persistent and new challenges relating to contemporary international fisheries law, this book examines emerging...

Spanning the last 50 years of fisheries policy in Europe, this book is the parting contribution and career-spanning reflection from one of Europes ...

This edition features the Blue Transformation in action, illustrated by activities and initiatives, led by FAO in collaboration with Members, partn...

Feed and Feeding for Fish and Shellfish: Nutritional Physiology presents foundational knowledge and the most recent advances in aquaculture finfish...

Small-scale fisheries make up a large proportion of world's fisheries, both by catch and participation. Effective management is essential to ensure...

Fishing has played a vital role in human history and culture. But today this key resource faces a serious crisis as most species are being overfish...

Conservation and Management of Transnational Tuna Fisheries reviews and synthesizes the existing literature, focusing on rights-based management an...

This volume is a detailed gazetteer of fish-salting production in the northwest Maghreb in antiquity. It consists of a catalogue of fish-salting si...

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...