Saving Global Fisheries
Barkin, J. Samuel (Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston) / DeSombre, Elizabeth R. (Wellesley College)
The Earth's oceans are overfished, despite more than fifty years of cooperation among the world's fishing nations. There are too many boats chasing too few fish. In Saving Global Fisheries, J. Samuel Barkin and Elizabeth DeSombre analyze the problem of overfishing and offer a provocative proposal for a global regulatory and policy approach. Existing patterns of international fisheries management try to limit the number of fish that can be caug...