Saving Global Fisheries: Reducing Fishing Capacity to Promote Sustainability

by J. Samuel Barkin and Elizabeth R. DeSombre

A proposal for a new global approach for fisheries focused on reducing fishing capacity and providing incentives for long-term sustainability.

The Earth's oceans are overfished, despite more than fifty years of cooperation among the world's fishing nations. There are too many boats chasing too few fish. In SavingGlobal Fisheries, J. Samuel Barkin and Elizabeth DeSombre analyze the problem of overfishing and offer a provocative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262018640
• ISBN13: 9780262018647
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher