Just Fish
Ethics and Canadian Marine Fisheries
Will be published approx. on 4. April 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-919666-97-9 (ISBN)
Description
Today in Canada, the fish stocks of both the east and west coasts are in serious trouble. The once-great cod stocks have collapsed; the Fraser River salmon stocks seem to have done likewise. Coastal communities are in crisis. The majority of the great world fisheries are seriously over-exploited, and some bodies of water are effectively dead. The problem has to lie with the manner in which we run our fisheries. The issue is ethical as well as social and environmental. A team of humanists, natural scientists, and social scientists came together to examine the question of justice in the Canadian fisheries and to seek an ethical foundation upon which to base guidelines for fisheries policies and decision-making in the future. Just Fish, the result of their work, argues that Canada could - and must - become a world leader in developing fisheries management institutions that can protect the legitimate interests of both fish and the fishers who depend upon them.
Reviews / Votes
"Just Fish is an unusually well-edited product of a highly ambitious multidisciplinary project." - Oystein Aas Dr, Fish and Fisheries"Just Fish...should be thoughtfully read by anyone with an interest in such frightening matters as depletion of Canada's cod and salmon resources. The book is further enhanced by the creative and insightful artwork of Pam Hall." - Edwin P. Pister, Fish Biology and Fisheries
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Canada
Publishing group
Memorial University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-919666-97-9 (9780919666979)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Harold Coward is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. His main fields of interest are comparative religion, psychology of religion, and environmental ethics. He serves as an executive member of the Board, Canadian Global Change Program. His publications include Ethics and Climate Change (1993, with Thomas Hurka) and Pluralism: Challenge to World Religions (1985).
Rosemary Ommer has been Professor of History at Memorial University of Newfoundland and is the former Research Director of Memorial's Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER). She was the Principal Investigator of the Tricounsil-funded Ecoresearch Project, "Sustainability in a Cold-Ocean Coastal Environment," investigating the sustainability of communities of fish and fishers in Newfoundland in the wake of the collapse of the groundfish stocks off Canada's east coast. She is the Director of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary. She is also co-editor (with Dianne Newell) of Fishing Places, Fishing People: Issues in Canadian Small-Scale Fisheries (1999) and project director of "Coasts Under Stress."
Tony Pitcher received his doctorate from Oxford University and has taught at universities in London, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Germany. Since 1993 he has been Professor of Fisheries and the first Director of the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia. He founded the journal Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, the leading journal in its field, and founded another journal, Fish and Fisheries. His fisheries research, training, work, and consultancy have involved him in projects throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Latin America and have lead to over 200 scientific publications, including 13 books, more than 20 Ph.D. students, and methods and concepts that are used throughout the world.
Rosemary Ommer has been Professor of History at Memorial University of Newfoundland and is the former Research Director of Memorial's Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER). She was the Principal Investigator of the Tricounsil-funded Ecoresearch Project, "Sustainability in a Cold-Ocean Coastal Environment," investigating the sustainability of communities of fish and fishers in Newfoundland in the wake of the collapse of the groundfish stocks off Canada's east coast. She is the Director of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary. She is also co-editor (with Dianne Newell) of Fishing Places, Fishing People: Issues in Canadian Small-Scale Fisheries (1999) and project director of "Coasts Under Stress."
Tony Pitcher received his doctorate from Oxford University and has taught at universities in London, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Germany. Since 1993 he has been Professor of Fisheries and the first Director of the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia. He founded the journal Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, the leading journal in its field, and founded another journal, Fish and Fisheries. His fisheries research, training, work, and consultancy have involved him in projects throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Latin America and have lead to over 200 scientific publications, including 13 books, more than 20 Ph.D. students, and methods and concepts that are used throughout the world.