The oceans, long thought to hold unlimited
bounty, are emptying. From Iceland to India, from Namibia to
Norway, fish catches are decreasing every year. Worldwide, the
global marine catch has been declining since 1989. This collapse,
and the resulting international conflicts that it has brought
about, brings sharply into view the necessity of implementing
conservation measures.
Sustainability discussions in Canada and around the world spout much rhetoric, but amount to little else, and only demonstrate the failure of conservation. Within an increasingly globalized and deregulated world economy it may be necessary for coastal fishing communities to advance a sea claim for local rights to what is left of the fish.
Table of Contents:
The Colonial History of the Northwest Atlantic Fishery;
"Resource Development": From Common Property, to Public
Property, to Private Property;
"Resource Analysis": Second Guessing Fishery Science;
Conservation & Community;
"Resource development" & "Resource
management": The Real Story
Resisting Globalization
A History of the Fishery in Canada
Raymond A. Rogers holds a Ph.D from York University where he teaches during winter months. He spent twelve of the last fifteen years as a full-time fisherman and part-time carpenter in Little Harbour, Nova Scotia, and is a founding member of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada. He has been active in forging links between the fisheries and environmentalism for the last five years. He is the author of Nature and the Crisis of Modernity: A Critique of Contemporary Discourse on Managing the Earth, also published by Black Rose.
See also: Nature and the Crisis of Modernity and Solving History
76 pages, index
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