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Several textbooks and useful compendia on fisheries have been published recently, and others are in preparation. The question then arises: why publish another book on fisheries at this time? My answer is 1) that fishery research and management are such broad subjects that it is difficult, if not impossible, to cover them adequately in one volume; 2) that consequently each author has stressed those aspects of greatest immediate interest to him; and 3) that to the best of my knowl edge no adequate broad treatment of the sociopolitical aspects of fishery management has yet ·appeared, although some good discussions have been published for particular fisheries. This volume grew out of a course that I have taught for the last 12 years at the State University of New Yo·rk at Stony Brook. Originally, the title of the course was Fishery Ecology, which was a matter of surprise to some students when they attended the fi rst few 1 ectures. Despite the sudden recent emergence of ecology as a household word, most people do not understand what the term means. I have found that even some graduate students forget that man is a potent force in the dynamic state of aquatic life. This is not only because he does things that change the environment and so affects living things in it, but also because he has such strange ways of thinking and of managing his affairs.
List of contents
I - Introduction.- II - Marine fishery research.- III - Fisheries of the United States.- IV - The oyster industry.- V - The blue crab fishery.- VI - Industrial fisheries - Pacific sardine and Atlantic menhaden.- VII - Marine sport fisheries.- VIII - Interstate marine fisheries compacts.- IX - North Pacific fur seal convention.- X - International Pacific halibut convention.- XI - International whaling convention.- XII - International Pacific salmon fisheries convention.- XIII - International convention for the high seas fisheries of the North Pacific Ocean.- XIV - Inter-American tropical tuna convention.- XV - International convention for the Northwest Atlantic fisheries.- XVI - International convention on Great Lakes fisheries.- XVII - Fishery oceanography.- XVIII - Fishery economics.- XIX - Summary.- Species Index.
