Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Fisheries Management Laws and Regulations

  • Chapter
Living Marine Resources

  • 114 Accesses

Abstract

One would hope, after many years of data gathering and planning, that a fisheries management program could be put into effect without a fight or receiving undeserved abusive remarks and threats. The following comments taken from a 1981 paper by S. Wright of the Washington Department of Fisheries are a good example of what fishery managers must cope with.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

Fisheries Management—Laws and Regulation

  • Brown, R. and N. Caputi. 1986. Conservation of recruitment of the western rock lobster (Panulirus cy-grus George) by improving survival and growth of undersize captured and returned by fishermen to the sea. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 43(11):2236–2242.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Clark, I. N. and A. J. Duncan. 1986. New Zealand’s fisheries management policies—past, present and future: The implementation of an ITQ based management system. In Mollett, Nina (ed.). Fishery access control programs worldwide: Proceedings of the Workshop on Management Options for the North Pacific Longline Fisheries. 107–140. Univ. of Alaska Sea Grant Rep. 86–4.

    Google Scholar 

  • Clark, I. N., P. J. Major, and N. Mollett. 1988. Development and implementation of New Zealand’s ITQ management system. Mar. Resour. Econ. 5:325–349.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dahmani, M. 1987. The fisheries regime of the exclusive economic zone. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Lancaster, PA.

    Google Scholar 

  • Darwin, L. H. 1921. Thirtieth and thirty-first annual reports of the State Fish Commissioner. Washington Department of Fisheries and Game, Seattle, WA.

    Google Scholar 

  • Green, G., and M. Nayar. 1988. Individual transferable quotas in the southern bluefin tuna fishery: An economic appraisal. Mar. Resour. Econ. 5:365–387.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hannesson, R. 1993. Bioeconomic analysis of fisheries. John Wiley, & Sons. Inc., New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jarman, M. C. and D. K. Conner (eds.). 1987. Conference on Gulf and South Atlantic Fisheries: Law and policy. Louisiana Sea Grant. MASGP-87–013. 280 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Koers. A. W. 1973. International regulation of marine fisheries. Fishing News Books Ltd., Farham, Surrey, England.

    Google Scholar 

  • Larkin, P. A. 1977. An epitaph for the concept of maximum sustainable yield. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 106(1):1–11.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Larkin, P. A. 1988. The future of fisheries management: Managing the fisherman. Fisheries 13.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mollett, N. (ed.). 1986. Fishery access control programs worldwide: Proceedings of the Workshop on Management Options for the North Pacific Longline Fisheries. 107–140. Univ. of Alaska Sea Grant Rep. 86–4. 366 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Muse, B. and K. Schelle. 1988. New Zealand’s ITQ program. Alaska Commer. Fish. Entry Comm. CFEC 88–3. 46 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Neher, P. A., R. Arnason, and N. Mollett (eds.). 1988. Rights based fishing. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pauly, D. 1987. Managing the Peruvian upwelling ecosystem: A synthesis. In Pauly, D. and I. Tsu-kayama (eds.). The Peruvian anchoveta and its upwelling ecosystem: Three decades of change. 325–342. ICLAM Contribution No. 391.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pinkerton, E. (ed.). 1989. Co-operative management of local fisheries. New directions for improved management and community development. University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, BC.

    Google Scholar 

  • Retting, R. B. and J. J. C. Ginter (eds.). 1978. Limited entry as a fishery management tool. Proceedings of a National Conference to Consider Limited Entry as a Tool in Fishery Management. Denver, July 17–19, 1978. Washington Sea Grant Publication. 463 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Robinson, W. L. 1986. Individual transferable quotas in the Australian southern bluefin tuna fishery. In Mollett, Nina (ed.). Fishery access control programs worldwide: Proceedings of the Workshop on Management Options for the North Pacific Longline Fisheries. 107–140. Univ. of Alaska Sea Grant Rep. 86–4.

    Google Scholar 

  • Roedel, P. M. (ed.). 1975. Optimum sustainable yield as a concept in fisheries management. Am. Fish. Soc. Spec. Publ. 9. 89 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rothschild, B. J. 1972. World fisheries policy. University of Washington Press, Seattle. 272 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Walters, C. T. 1975. Optimum harvest strategies for salmon in relation to environmental variability and uncertain production parameters. J. Fish. Res. Board Can. 32:1777–1784.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Waters, J. R. 1991. Restricted access vs. open access methods of management: Toward more effective regulation of fishing effort. Mar. Fish. Rev. 53(3):1–10.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wise, J. P. 1991. Federal conservation and management of marine fisheries in the United States. Center for Marine Conservation. Washington, D.C. (Second Printing).

    Google Scholar 

  • Wooster, W. S. (ed.). 1989. Fishery science and management; Objectives and limitations. Springer, Berlin.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wright, S. 1981. Contemporary Pacific salmon fisheries management. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 1:29–40.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Competition, Conflicts, and Commercial Fishermen

  • Anon. 1979. The American Fisheries: 1620–1979. Fishing Gazette. November:51–90.

    Google Scholar 

  • Arden, H. 1981. Troubled Odyssey of Vietnamese fishermen. National Geographic, 160(3):378–395.

    Google Scholar 

  • Callanan, J. A. 1975. Storm over Georges Bank. Exxon XIV:6–11.

    Google Scholar 

  • Doeringer, P. B., P. I. Moss, and D. G. Terkla. 1986. The New England fishing economy: Jobs, income, and kinship. Univ. of Mass. Press, Boston.

    Google Scholar 

  • Farrell, J. 1986. Doing business on California’s great waters. Exxon. XXV(1):16–21.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ferguson, M. O. 1986. Characteristics of red drum and spotted seatrout commercial fishermen in Texas. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 6:344–356.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Graves, W. P. E. 1959. Maine’s Lobster Island: Monhegan. National Geographic. 115(2):285–298.

    Google Scholar 

  • Johnson, P. J. (ed.). 1988. Working the water: The commercial fisheries of Maryland’s Patuxent River. Calvert Marine Museum and the University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

    Google Scholar 

  • Larssen, A. K. and S. Jaeger. 1974. Some ABC’s of fo’c’sle living. Mar. Fish. Rev. 36(6):1–37.

    Google Scholar 

  • MacLeish, E. H. 1985. New England fishermen battle the winter ocean on Georges Bank. Smithsonian 16(2):105–114.

    Google Scholar 

  • Maril, R. L. 1983. Texas shrimpers: Community, capitalism, and the sea. Texas A & M University Press, College Station, TX.

    Google Scholar 

  • Parish, R. 1986. Of wooden boats and iron men. Alaska Fish and Game. May-June 1986:10, 11, 33.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sainsbury, J, C. 1969. Education for the commercial fisheries. In Firth, F. E. (ed.). The encyclopedia of marine resources. 191–196. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schaefer, F. S. 1993. To harvest the Chesapeake. Sea Frontiers. Int. Oceanogr. Fndn., 39(1):36–49.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sullivant, R. 1990. An endangered species: Fishermen. The University of Miami Magazine. Fall:7–11.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tunstall, J. 1962. The fishermen. Macgibbon and Kee Ltd., London.

    Google Scholar 

  • Villiers, A. 1971. The most hazardous sea profession? Oceans 4(2):8–20.

    Google Scholar 

  • Warner, W. W. 1976. Beautiful swimmers: Watermen, crabs and the Chesapeake Bay. Little, Brown and Co., Boston.

    Google Scholar 

  • Warner, W. W. 1983. Distant waters: The fate of the North Atlantic fishermen. Little, Brown and Co., Boston.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA

    Edwin S. Iversen

Authors
  1. Edwin S. Iversen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 1996 Chapman & Hall

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Iversen, E.S. (1996). Fisheries Management Laws and Regulations. In: Living Marine Resources. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1211-6_14

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1211-6_14

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA

  • Print ISBN: 978-1-4612-8513-7

  • Online ISBN: 978-1-4613-1211-6

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation