Research Catalog

Title

Vanishing species : saving the fish, sacrificing the fisherman / Susan R. Playfair.

Author

Playfair, Susan R.

Publication

Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, [2003], ©2003.

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Description

xiv, 270 pages : map; 24 cm

Summary

• "Vanishing Species chronicles the fate of groundfishing in New England waters since the Sustainable Fisheries Act (SFA) was enacted in 1996, causing increasingly strict regulations to be placed on the harvesting of fourteen species of edible fish. The SFA mandates that within a ten-year period, the stocks of these fish were to be brought up to levels prescribed by the government.
• To achieve this goal, strict regulations were put in place to limit net size, how many fish were caught, and the number of days fishermen could spend at sea. The SFA and regulations like it govern how, when, and where fishermen may fish.".
• "Based in large part on interviews with a wide range of people - fishermen and their families, restaurant managers, environmentalists, fisheries scientists, politicians, and government officials - Vanishing Species offers a series of unforgettable portraits of people who are involved in the struggle to find a way to support sustainable fishing and the communities that rely on it."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Lobster fishers > Maine
• Lobster fisheries > Maine
• Lobster industry > Maine

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-247) and index.

Contents

1. New England Groundfishing: Tradition and Reality -- 2. The Regulations versus the Regulated -- 3. Are Regulations Destroying the Fish and Destroying the Fisherman? -- 4. Demand Creates Supply, but of What Quality and at What Cost? -- 5. Are We Losing Our New England Fishing Communities? -- 6. Saving the Fish, Saving the Fisherman -- 7. Epitaph for a Way of Life.

ISBN

1584653183 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002153373

OCLC

• ocm50982359
• SCSB-4345738

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries