Fishing places, fishing people : traditions and issues in Canadian small-scale fisheries / edited by Dianne Newell and Rosemary E. Ommer.

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Using case studies drawn from across Canada, the papers demonstrate that there are many shared issues in the various small-scale fisheries of this country, and locate small-scale fisheries in their historical context as well as in that of global concerns.

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This book contains an interesting and rather unique evaluation of fisheries management in Canada. The major topical thrust is to question the historical change in management from a community-based system to one that is largely centralized in governmental agencies. Individual chapter authors cover case studies that involve a wide array of freshwater and marine species across the continent. The first part (six chapters) analyzes the relationship of different fishing communities from Newfoundland to British Columbia to the resources they utilized and how diminishing harvest impacted them. The second part (seven chapters) presents a historic perspective on an equally broad array of management approaches and analyzes their consequences. The five chapters in the final section synthesize past experiences with fisheries management and offer some suggestions for approaches that provide incorporation of sociological factors in the decision-making process. Overall, an interesting presentation of the results of a wide array of fisheries management activities, which permits the reader to develop the common thread among very different fisheries resources and offers some basis for considering the need for change. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. W. K. Hershberger; University of Washington