Fisherman's Problem Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980

Name: Fisherman's Problem Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980
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ISBN: 9780521385862

ISBN-10: 0521385865

ISBN-13: 9780521385862

Edition: 1986

Authors: Arthur F. McEvoy, Alfred W. Crosby, Donald Worster

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The living resources of California's rivers and coastal waters are among the most varied and productive in the world. They also offer a laboratory example of the mismanagement and waste that have attended the settlement and development of the North American continent. The Fisherman's Problem is a study of the interaction among resource ecology, economic enterprise, and law in the history of the California fishing industry. It analyzes the ways in which the natural environment not only provided the raw material for economic development but played an active role in it as well. As this book shows, the natural environment has a history both independent of, and yet influenced by, classic example…

Book details

List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/26/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



List of figures


List of tables


Preface


Acknowledgments


List of abbreviations


Introduction



The problem of environment



The Miner's Canary



Aboriginal fishery management



The Indian fisheries commercialized



Sun, Wind, and Sail, 1850-1910



Immigrant fisheries



State power and the right to fish



The Industrial Frontier, 1910-1950



Mechanized fishing



The bureaucrat's problem



Enclosure of the Ocean, 1950-1980



Gridlock



Something of a vacuum



Leaving fish in the ocean



An ecological community


Conclusion


Appendix


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index