Northern Waters

Introduction; Parallel institutional pathologies in fisheries management; Changes in fisheries management and scientific advice; Metaphors of property: the commoditisation of fishing rights; Political geography and politics in the North Atlantic; The Far North and the will for regionalism; Creating alternative natures: Coastal cod as fact and artefact; Flexibility in northern waters; Modernisation of the processing industry in Finnmark: Impacts of formal education and the challenge for resource management; Enforcement and legitimacy in the Barents sea fisheries; Sharing revenue in Icelandic fisheries; Management issues for Baltic Sea fisheries: The case of cod and salmon; Growth and decline in the Baltic cod fishery; Wild Swedish salmon: A regional development resource through recreational use?; Livelihood and way of life: Finnish commercial fisheries in the Baltic Sea; The going gets tough: Strategies of Finland's coastal fishermen; Is the industrial fishery in the North Sea sustainable?; The impact of fisheries on seabirds in the North Sea; From economic fish stock management to integrated management: Communicative miracle or a tower of babel?; The political economy of marine resource management: Dutch musselmen, the State and environmentalists; The negotiation and management of crisis in the Scottish fishing industry; Conclusion.