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Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Primary industries > Fisheries & related industries
Small-scale fisheries are a major source of food and employment
around the world. Yet, many small-scale fishers work in conditions
that are neither safe nor secure. Millions of them are poor, and
often they are socially and politically marginalized.
Macro-economic and institutional mechanisms are essential to
address these poverty and vulnerability problems; however,
interventions at the local community level are also necessary. This
requires deep understanding of what poverty means to the fishers,
their families and communities; how they cope with it; and the
challenges they face to increase resiliency and improve their lives
for the better. This book provides a global perspective, situating
small-scale fisheries within the broad academic discourse on
poverty, fisheries management and development. In-depth case
studies from fifteen countries in Latin America, Europe, South and
Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, demonstrate the enormously
complex ecological, economic, social, cultural and political
contexts of this sector. Conclusions for policy-making, formulated
as a joint statement by the authors, argue that fisheries
development, poverty alleviation, and resource management must be
integrated within a comprehensive governance approach that also
looks beyond fisheries. The scientific editors, Svein Jentoft and
Arne Eide, are both with the Norwegian College of Fishery Science,
Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, University of
Tromso, Norway.
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Fish
(Hardcover)
E Desombre
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R1,341
Discovery Miles 13 410
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Fishing has played a vital role in human history and culture. But
today this key resource faces a serious crisis as most species are
being overfished or fished to their very limit. Governments have
tried to tackle the problem with limited success. Many of their
actions have been counterproductive or ineffective. What will
happen to global fisheries, and the populations that depend on
them, as we continue to catch more fish than the oceans can
reproduce? This book explores the causes of the current crisis in
the world's fisheries, and what needs to be done to address the
situation. It explains the structure of the fishing industry, the
incentives that persuade individuals or companies to catch fish at
unsustainable levels, and illuminates the problems created by
governmental efforts to use fishing policy as a tool for economic
development or to win votes in domestic elections. It also looks at
the role of aquaculture in either decreasing or increasing the
pressure on wild fish stocks. The dire condition of fish stocks has
led governments and consumer organizations to consider new
approaches to protect the global supply of fish. DeSombre and
Barkin conclude by showing how such methods, along with new forms
of international regulation and informed decision-making by
consumers, all have an important part to play in rewarding and thus
encouraging sustainable fishing behaviour in the future.
Over the past twenty years considerable public attention has been
focused on the decline of marine fisheries, the sustainability of
world fish production, and the impacts of fishing on marine
ecosystems. Many have voiced their concerns about marine
conservation, as well as the sustainable and ethical consumption of
fish. But are fisheries in danger of collapse? Will we soon need to
find ways to replace this food system? Should we be worried that we
could be fishing certain species to extinction? Can commercial
fishing be carried out in a sustainable way? While overblown
prognoses concerning the dire state of fisheries are plentiful,
clear scientific explanations of the basic issues surrounding
overfishing are less so - and there remains great confusion about
the actual amount of overfishing and its ecological impact.
Overfishing: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) will provide a balanced
explanation of the broad issues associated with overfishing.
Guiding readers through the scientific, political, economic, and
ethical issues associated with harvesting fish from the ocean, it
will provide answers to questions about which fisheries are
sustainably managed and which are not. Ray and Ulrike Hilborn
address topics including historical overfishing, high seas
fisheries, recreational fisheries, illegal fishing, climate and
fisheries, trawling, economic and biological overfishing, and
marine protected areas. In order to illustrate the effects of each
of these issues, they will incorporate case studies of different
species of fish.
Overall, the authors present a hopeful view of the future of
fisheries. Most of the world's fisheries are not overfished, and
many once overfished stocks are now rebuilding. In fact, we can
learn from the management failures and successes to ensure that
fisheries are sustainable and contribute to national wealth and
food security. Concise and clear, this book presents a compelling
"big picture" of the state of oceans and the solutions to ending
overfishing.
What Everyone Needs to Know(r) is a registered trademark of Oxford
University Press
This book is a multidisciplinary analysis of cultural, regional and
economic factors affecting international food trade. Contributions
from expert authors illuminate the importance of food culture
prevailing in the market as a basis for decisions about food
trading. Central concepts include value chains, conventions and
public infrastructure and their importance for international trade.
The reader is taken into a discussion about cultural and economic
contexts which influence local decisions among buyers and
manufacturers of seafood and how those contexts mutually influence
trade between countries. Chapters investigate the trading pattern
of codfish (Bacalao), between Nordic and Iberian countries and
discuss how business relations are created and structured. The
driving forces behind such patterns and how business relations
become habits which are hard to change, are revealed through the
research presented. As a multidisciplinary work, this book will
have broad appeal. It will be of interest to those exploring
cultural, economic and public policy issues associated with food
trade, as well as anyone with an interest in the seafood market or
the Nordic and Iberian regions.
Drawing on more than 30 case studies from around the world, this
book offers a multitude of examples for improving the governance of
small-scale fisheries. Contributors from some 36 countries argue
that reform, transformation and innovation are vital to achieving
sustainable small-scale fisheries - especially for mitigating the
threats and vulnerabilities of global change. For this to happen,
governing systems must be context-specific and the governability of
small-scale fisheries properly assessed. The volume corresponds
well with the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable
Small-Scale Fisheries adopted in 2014, spearheaded by the United
Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). These affirm the
importance of small-scale fisheries for food security, nutrition,
livelihoods, rural development and poverty reduction. The book
arises from the project Too Big To Ignore: Global Partnership for
Small-Scale Fisheries Research (TBTI). "A nuanced, diverse, vibrant
and local-specific collection of essays - just as the small-scale
fisheries around the world - dealt with by this versatile array of
authors. Following on the heels of the recently adopted FAO
Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines, here is an erudite compendium
which I heartily recommend to policy makers, academics and
activists who wish to come to terms with the complex issue of
governance of this important field of human activity." John Kurien
- Founding Member of the International Collective in Support of
Fishworkers (ICSF), and Former Professor, Centre for Development
Studies, Trivandrum, India "Likely to become a classic in its
field, this book is about small-scale fisheries and interactive
governance - governance which is negotiated, deliberated upon, and
communicated among stakeholders who often share governing
responsibilities. The authors show that interactive governance is
not just a normative theory but a phenomenon that can be studied
empirically, here with 34 case studies from as many countries
around the world, north and south, east and west. Such "force of
example" enables the editors to put together well-developed
arguments and sometimes surprising conclusions about the way ahead.
A must-read for managers, practitioners, stakeholders, and
students!" Fikret Berkes - University of Manitoba, Canada, and
author of Coasts for People
Fishing for a Solution provides a detailed, policy-based account of
the development of Canada's fisheries relations with the European
Union. It covers over 35 years of this contentious international
relationship, from the extension of Canada's fisheries jurisdiction
to 200 miles in 1977 and the creation of the Northwest Atlantic
Fisheries Organization (NAFO) two years later, to the development
of a proposed new NAFO Convention in 2007, which awaits formal
approval. Based on the experience of participants from inside the
deliberations and negotiations, the book explores the impact of
Canada's internal politics on international fisheries negotiations.
For anyone interested in the workings of Canadian foreign policy,
resource policy or in the complexities of managing international
relations, it offers a unique account of the development of
Canada-EU fisheries relations, blending the academic perspective of
a long--time student of those relations with the insights of two
former senior public servants who led the international affairs
directorate of Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans .
Fishing Talk: The Language of a Lost Industry is the outcome of a
lifetime's research by Lowestoft author David Butcher. Over the
years he has recorded many hours of interviews with the fishermen
of the east coast of the British Isles and has compiled their
stories and accounts of their working lives into several books. For
this title, he explains the words and phrases they use in their
accounts, some to be found in the common parlance, some only found
in use on the working boats of the fishing industry. The sea-going
men - and women who handled the catches, kept the homes together
and frequently looked after the business aspect of the fishing life
- gladly contributed their recollections. The mid and deep sea
fisheries of East Anglia have passed into history but this
publication preserves their vocabulary.
In 2006 Congress recognised the need for international cooperation
to address some of the most significant issues affecting
international fisheries today: illegal, unreported, and unregulated
(IUU) fishing and fishing practices that may undermine the
sustainability of living marine resources. In 2010, Congress
focused on the need for enhanced international action to conserve
and protect sharks in passing the Shark Conservation Act. By
requirement, the Secretary of Commerce, in biennial reports, is to
identify nations whose fishing vessels are engaged in certain IUU
fishing, bycatch, and shark fishing practices; describe U.S.
consultations with the identified countries to urge appropriate
actions; and certify whether such actions subsequent to
identification have adequately addressed the offending activities.
The Secretary of Commerce has delegated authority to identify and
certify countries under the Moratorium Protection Act to the NOAA
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries. The Secretary of Commerce is
also directed, in consultation with the Secretary of State and in
cooperation with relevant regional fishery management councils and
any relevant advisory committees, to take certain actions to
improve the effectiveness of international fishery management
organizations in conserving and managing stocks under their
jurisdiction. This book surveys efforts by the United States to
strengthen its leadership toward improving international fisheries
management and enforcement, particularly with regard to IUU
fishing, bycatch of protected living marine resources (PLMRs), and
certain shark fishing practices. Furthermore, this book covers
issues that have been identified during congressional hearings and
in legislation introduced during the last three Congresses, some of
which include the flexibility in rebuilding overfished fisheries;
annual catch limits; uncertainty and data needs; catch shares
(limited access privilege programs); management process and
decision making; bycatch; and environmental quality.
Through his ethnographic study of the fishermen and their religious
beliefs, Webster speaks to larger debates about religious
radicalism, materiality, economy, language, and the symbolic. These
debates also call into question assumptions about the decline of
religion in modern industrial societies.
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