Making Salmon - An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis

Joseph E. Taylor III is assistant professor of history at Iowa State University. An environmental historian specializing in fisheries, he has also worked in the commercial fisheries of the northeast Pacific and Bering Sea.Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Award, American Society for Environmental History

List of contents

Lists of Maps

Foreword: Speaking for Salmon

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Durable Crisis

Dependence, Respect, and Moderation

Historicizing Overfishing

Inventing a Panacea

Making Salmon

Taking Salmon

Urban Salmon

Remaking Salmon

Taking Responsibility

Citation Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliographic Essay

Index

About the author

Joseph E. Taylor III is assistant professor of history at Iowa State University. An environmental historian specializing in fisheries, he has also worked in the commercial fisheries of the northeast Pacific and Bering Sea.Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Award, American Society for Environmental History

Summary

A fascinating historical study of the decline of salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest

Product details

• Authors: Joseph E Taylor, Joseph E. Taylor
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2001
• EAN: 9780295981147
• ISBN: 978-0-295-98114-7
• No. of pages: 488
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 232 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 630 g
• Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration