Primary Industries

Providing a critical and incisive examination of community forestry, this is a detailed study of complex issues in local forest governance, communi...

Timber is a vital resource that is all around us. It is the house that shelters us, the furniture we relax in, the books we read, the paper we prin...

Forest management includes a range of human interventions that affect forest ecosystems. These activities include both conservation and economic ac...

Forests are enormously important to mankind. They not only supply essential harvestable products, but also ornamental landscapes, regulate climate,...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

There is more sugar in the world's diet than ever before, but life is far from sweet for the exploited producers making nature's 'white gold' and t...

Increasing food prices have renewed concerns about long-run agricultural demand and supply in the global economy. This book looks at results, metho...

Following Serbia's acceptance as a candidate for EU membership, it's agriculture and rural issues will receive major attention as agriculture is an...

Thanks to breakthroughs in production and food science, agribusiness has been able to devise new ways to grow more food and get it more places more...

A fast-paced account of the year Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yarn, and the people and vanishing indu...

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...