Author: McEvoy, Arthur F.
Title: The Fisherman's Problem : Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (1986). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xvi,368 pp, Series: Studies in Environment and History.. Textual photos,graphs,tables. Minor rubbing. Light cover soil. VG. ¶ Contents: The problem of environment; The Miner's Canary: Aboriginal fishery management; The Indian fisheries commercialized; Part II. Sun, Wind, and Sail, 1850-1910: Immigrant fisheries; State power and the right to fish; Part III. The Industrial Frontier, 1910-1950: Mechanized fishing; The bureaucrat's problem; Part IV. Enclosure of the Ocean, 1950-1980: Gridlock; Something of a vacuum; Leaving fish in the ocean; An ecological community; Conclusion; Appendix. ["The living resources of California's rivers and coastal waters are among the most varied and productive in the world. They also offer a laboratory example of the mismanagement and waste that have attended the settlement and development of the North American continent. The Fisherman's Problem is a study of the interaction among resource ecology, economic enterprise, and law in the history of the California fishing industry. It analyzes the ways in which the natural environment not only provided the raw material for economic development but played an active role in it as well. As this book shows, the natural environment has a history both independent of, and yet influenced by, classic example of 'common property' re-environmental conservation generally, as well as in the management of the fisheries of the world's rivers and oceans.." - Publisher's description]

Keywords: Environmental History, California, Fishery Policy, Fisheries, Resource Management, Marine Biology, Economic History, Social Anthropology, Legal Law