The New England fishing industry : a basis for management
Citable URI
https://hdl.handle.net/1912/1699Location
New EnglandDOI
10.1575/1912/1699Keyword
Fisheries; ManagementAbstract
Fish and fishermen appear to be in a serious decline in New England. The
haddock are overfished, inshore herring stocks are depleted, yellowtail flounder
and lobster are scarce. The popular image is of grizzled fishermen, their
boats chipped, scarred, old-fashioned hulks of wood tied up two and three abreast
along the rotting wharves and piers of New England's depressed port towns. In this
research project, we wanted to determine the state of the New England fishing
industry and to propose acceptable methods for the management of the fishery.
During our early discussions with the fishing industry people, we mentioned that
we were interested in limited effort programs as they might be applied to New
England fishermen. We carefully, and probably tediously, explained the "theory
of limited effort" and we were generally thought to be daft.
We were told we had things backwards--that the fishing industry needed more fish,
more men, more boats - and that the way to accomplish this was to get a 200-mile
fishing limit and kick the foreigners out.
One of these wishes has come true - in the spring of 1976, P.L. 94-265 established
a 200-mile fishing zone off the United States, with regional management councils to make management plans and allocate the resources first to United States fishermen, with surpluses to foreign fishermen.
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Srnith, L. J., & Peterson, S. B. (1977). The New England fishing industry: a basis for management. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. https://doi.org/10.1575/1912/1699Related items
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