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Book Alaskan Natives and Limited Fisheries of Alaska

Download or read book Alaskan Natives and Limited Fisheries of Alaska written by Nasser Kamali and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Flyfisher s Guide to Alaska

Download or read book Flyfisher s Guide to Alaska written by Scott Haugen and published by Wilderness Adventures Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Arctic to Bristol Bay, this book covers all the fabulous fishing opportunities throughout Alaska. With this resource, anglers can fly into Anchorage, rent a camper, and be catching trophy salmon and trout within hours of arrival. Includes 109 detailed river and lake maps--a big book for a big state.

Book The Community Development Quota Program in Alaska

Download or read book The Community Development Quota Program in Alaska written by Committee to Review the Community Development Quota Program and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-05-17 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews the performance and effectiveness of the Community Development Quotas (CDQ) programs that were formed as a result of the Sustainable Fisheries Act of 1996. The CDQ program is a method of allocating access to fisheries to eligible communities with the intent of promoting local social and economic conditions through participation in fishing-related activities. The book looks at those Alaskan fisheries that have experience with CDQs, such as halibut, pollock, sablefish, and crab, and comments on the extent to which the programs have met their objectives--helping communities develop ongoing commercial fishing and processing activities, creating employment opportunities, and providing capital for investment in fishing, processing, and support projects such as infrastructure. It also considers how CDQ-type programs might apply in the Western Pacific.

Book The Tragedy of the Commodity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stefano B. Longo
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2015-06-25
  • ISBN : 081357563X
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book The Tragedy of the Commodity written by Stefano B. Longo and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award from the American Sociological Association Although humans have long depended on oceans and aquatic ecosystems for sustenance and trade, only recently has human influence on these resources dramatically increased, transforming and undermining oceanic environments throughout the world. Marine ecosystems are in a crisis that is global in scope, rapid in pace, and colossal in scale. In The Tragedy of the Commodity, sociologists Stefano B. Longo, Rebecca Clausen, and Brett Clark explore the role human influence plays in this crisis, highlighting the social and economic forces that are at the heart of this looming ecological problem. In a critique of the classic theory “the tragedy of the commons” by ecologist Garrett Hardin, the authors move beyond simplistic explanations—such as unrestrained self-interest or population growth—to argue that it is the commodification of aquatic resources that leads to the depletion of fisheries and the development of environmentally suspect means of aquaculture. To illustrate this argument, the book features two fascinating case studies—the thousand-year history of the bluefin tuna fishery in the Mediterranean and the massive Pacific salmon fishery. Longo, Clausen, and Clark describe how new fishing technologies, transformations in ships and storage capacities, and the expansion of seafood markets combined to alter radically and permanently these crucial ecosystems. In doing so, the authors underscore how the particular organization of social production contributes to ecological degradation and an increase in the pressures placed upon the ocean. The authors highlight the historical, political, economic, and cultural forces that shape how we interact with the larger biophysical world. A path-breaking analysis of overfishing, The Tragedy of the Commodity yields insight into issues such as deforestation, biodiversity loss, pollution, and climate change.

Book Sustaining Alaska s Fisheries

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  • Author : Bob King
  • Publisher : State of Alaska Alaska Department of Fish and Game
  • Release : 2009-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781933375083
  • Pages : 74 pages

Download or read book Sustaining Alaska s Fisheries written by Bob King and published by State of Alaska Alaska Department of Fish and Game. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial retrospective containing stories of visionary pioneers, scientists, and the leaders who have been a part of developing Alaska's sustainable commercial fisheries management principles.

Book Alaskan Fisheries

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1946
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book Alaskan Fisheries written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arctic Politics

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  • Author : Oran R. Young
  • Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
  • Release : 2000-10-03
  • ISBN : 161168126X
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Arctic Politics written by Oran R. Young and published by Dartmouth College Press. This book was released on 2000-10-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long recognized by naturalists and adventurers as a dramatically unique region, the Arctic has recently emerged as an area of increasing political, strategic, and economic importance. The Arctic is both one of the worldÕs largest and smallest regions, encompassing 15% of the earthÕs land mass, yet inhabited by fewer than 1% of the worldÕs population. Its physical vastness is coupled with a wealth of natural resources; in oil alone, the Far North contributes that majority of RussiaÕs production and 25% of US output. At the same time, the Circumpolar North is home to diverse indigenous peoples and cultures, thus setting the stage for conflicts of international scope. In this collection of essays, Oran Young provides a foundation for studying the politics of the Arctic as a distinctive international region. Expanding the traditional approach to area studies, he examines the Far North not only for its unique features, but also as an arena within which to develop new approaches to various issues of worldwide interest. Young challenges persistent stereotypes that marginalize the region, moving beyond the romanticism of many observers to arrive at an understanding of the complex social and ecological systems of the Far North. In doing so, Young thoughtfully establishes the Arctic as an area of international importance both in its own right and in relation to other geopolitical regions.

Book Alaskan Fisheries

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House Merchant Marine and Fisheries
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1946
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Alaskan Fisheries written by United States. Congress. House Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book North by 2020

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  • Author : Amy Lauren Lovecraft
  • Publisher : University of Alaska Press
  • Release : 2011-11-15
  • ISBN : 1602231435
  • Pages : 754 pages

Download or read book North by 2020 written by Amy Lauren Lovecraft and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originating from a series of workshops held at the Alaska Forum of the Fourth International Polar Year, this interdisciplinary volume addresses a host of current concerns regarding the ecology and rapid transformation of the arctic. Concentrating on the most important linked social-ecological systems, including fresh water, marine resources, and oil and gas development, this volume explores opportunities for sustainable development from a variety of perspectives, among them social sciences, natural and applied sciences, and the arts. Individual chapters highlight expressions of climate change in dance, music, and film, as well as from an indigenous knowledge–based perspective.

Book Billion Dollar Fish

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  • Author : Kevin M. Bailey
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2013-05-15
  • ISBN : 022602234X
  • Pages : 301 pages

Download or read book Billion Dollar Fish written by Kevin M. Bailey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alaska pollock is everywhere. If you’re eating fish but you don’t know what kind it is, it’s almost certainly pollock. Prized for its generic fish taste, pollock masquerades as crab meat in california rolls and seafood salads, and it feeds millions as fish sticks in school cafeterias and Filet-O-Fish sandwiches at McDonald’s. That ubiquity has made pollock the most lucrative fish harvest in America—the fishery in the United States alone has an annual value of over one billion dollars. But even as the money rolls in, pollock is in trouble: in the last few years, the pollock population has declined by more than half, and some scientists are predicting the fishery’s eventual collapse. In Billion-Dollar Fish, Kevin M. Bailey combines his years of firsthand pollock research with a remarkable talent for storytelling to offer the first natural history of Alaska pollock. Crucial to understanding the pollock fishery, he shows, is recognizing what aspects of its natural history make pollock so very desirable to fish, while at the same time making it resilient, yet highly vulnerable to overfishing. Bailey delves into the science, politics, and economics surrounding Alaska pollock in the Bering Sea, detailing the development of the fishery, the various political machinations that have led to its current management, and, perhaps most important, its impending demise. He approaches his subject from multiple angles, bringing in the perspectives of fishermen, politicians, environmentalists, and biologists, and drawing on revealing interviews with players who range from Greenpeace activists to fishing industry lawyers. Seamlessly weaving the biology and ecology of pollock with the history and politics of the fishery, as well as Bailey’s own often raucous tales about life at sea, Billion-Dollar Fish is a book for every person interested in the troubled relationship between fish and humans, from the depths of the sea to the dinner plate.

Book Sailing for Salmon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tim Troll
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-05-04
  • ISBN : 9780578508795
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book Sailing for Salmon written by Tim Troll and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-04 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bristol Bay in Southwest Alaska is one of the great commercial fisheries on earth. More than half of the world's sockeye salmon return to "The Bay" every year. Sailing for Salmon is a nostalgic look back, through photographs and recollections, on the "sailboat days," a time when these salmon were harvested from sailboats - a time still within living memory. These sailboats, called Bristol Bay double-enders, were well-crafted and beautiful, but obsolete for most of their history. The use of motorized fishing vessels was finally allowed in 1951. The Bristol Bay commercial fishery has changed much since then, but the sailboat remains the iconic image of a fishery born on the wind.

Book Alaska Subsistence

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  • Author : Frank Blaine Norris
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Alaska Subsistence written by Frank Blaine Norris and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study is a chronicle of how subsistence management in Alaska has grown and evolved"--P. viii.

Book Alaskan Fisheries

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine, Radio, and Fisheries
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1934
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 34 pages

Download or read book Alaskan Fisheries written by United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine, Radio, and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fur seal and Other Fisheries of Alaska

Download or read book The Fur seal and Other Fisheries of Alaska written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alaskan Fisheries

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine, Radio, and Fisheries
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1934
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Alaskan Fisheries written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine, Radio, and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fur seal and Other Fisheries of Alaska

Download or read book The Fur seal and Other Fisheries of Alaska written by United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Girl who Swam with the Fish

Download or read book The Girl who Swam with the Fish written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Athabascan legend follows a young girl and her family as they set up their traditional seasonal fishing camp along the banks of a river. As they prepare for the return of the salmon, the girl wonders, "What would it be like to be a fish?" This heartfelt wish sends the young girl on a startling odyssey to the sea where she learns the ways of the salmon.