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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162714003321

Autore

Finley Carmel

Titolo

All the Boats on the Ocean : How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing / / Carmel Finley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

9780226443409

022644340X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 pages)

Disciplina

333.95/6

Soggetti

Fishery management - United States - History - 20th century

Fisheries - North Pacific Ocean - History - 20th century

Fishery management - Political aspects - North Pacific Ocean

Fishery policy - United States

Overfishing - North Pacific Ocean

Sea-power - Economic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Political Roles for Fish Populations -- 1. The Fishing Empires of the Pacific: The Americans, the Japanese, and the Soviets -- 2. Islands and War -- 3. Manifest Destiny and Fishing -- 4. Tariffs -- 5. Industrialization -- 6. Treaties -- 7. Imperialism -- 8. Enclosure -- Conclusions: Updating the Best Available Science -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Most current fishing practices are neither economically nor biologically sustainable. Every year, the world spends