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Making Seafood Sustainable American Experiences in Global Perspective

By: Mansel G Blackford(Author)
288 pages, 20 illustrations
Making Seafood Sustainable
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In the spring of 2007, National Geographic warned, "The oceans are in deep blue trouble. From the northernmost reaches of the Greenland Sea to the swirl of the Antarctic Circle, we are gutting our seas of fish". There were legitimate grounds for concern. After increasing more than fourfold between 1950 and 1994, the global wild fish catch reached a plateau and stagnated despite exponential growth in the fishing industry. As numerous scientific reports showed, many fish stocks around the world collapsed, creating a genuine global overfishing crisis.

Making Seafood Sustainable analyzes the ramifications of overfishing for the United States by investigating how fishers, seafood processors, retailers, government officials, and others have worked together to respond to the crisis. Historian Mansel G. Blackford examines how these players took steps to make fishing in some American waters, especially in Alaskan waters, sustainable. Critical to these efforts, Blackford argues, has been government and industry collaboration in formulating and enforcing regulations. What can be learned from these successful experiences? Are they applicable elsewhere? What are the drawbacks? Making Seafood Sustainable addresses these questions and suggests that sustainable seafood management can be made to work. The economic and social costs incurred in achieving sustainable resource usage are significant, but there are ways to mitigate them. More broadly, this study illustrates ways to manage commonly held natural resources around the world – land, water, oil, and so on – in sustainable ways.

Contents

Preface
Introduction

PART I. GOVERNMENT REGULATION
1. Global Over-Fishing and New Regulatory Regimes
2. Successes and Failures in the Regulation of American Fisheries

PART II. THE INDUSTRY
3. Salmon Fishing: From Open Access to Limited Entry
4. King Crabbing: Catch Limits and Price Setting
5. Bottom Fishing: Quotas and Sustainability

PART III. CHANGING THE FOOD CHAIN
6. The Companies: Controlling Food Chains
7. Reaching Consumers: From Processing to Retailing
Conclusion

Appendix: The Top-Ten U.S. Seafood Suppliers, 1999-2006, with Sales
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Index
Acknowledgments

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Biography

Mansel G. Blackford is Professor Emeritus of History at the Ohio State University and author of several books, including The Rise of Modern Business: Great Britain, the United States, Germany, Japan, and China and Pathways to the Present: U.S. Development and Its Consequences in the Pacific.

By: Mansel G Blackford(Author)
288 pages, 20 illustrations
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"Intelligent, provocative, and well researched, with delightful writing throughout. Blackford has a grasp on the ways in which global developments manifest themselves in American fisheries on a number of different levels: economic, environmental, cultural, and political. Indeed, Blackford demonstrates that all of these local manifestations of globalization are connected to each other."
– Arthur F. McEvoy, Southwestern Law School

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