Fisheries Mismanagement

Fisheries Mismanagement
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168
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9780852382431
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Новые поступления академической литературы издательства Wiley

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Why does the fishing industry have an inherent tendency to overexploit fish stocks and destroy its own resource base? Why do government agencies fail to manage fisheries in an economically sensible way? Does the new Convention on Fishing on the High Seas have any future? Should the European Union abandon its Common Fisheries Policy? This thought provoking work seeks toanswer these questions by considering how four countries, Iceland, Newfoundland, Norway and the Faroe Islands, have mismanaged their fisheries, in some cases so disastrously that fish stocks have been virtually wiped out. Mismanagement of fisheries occurs worldwide, and the experiences of the East Coast of America, where the effects have been particularly dramatic, are likely to be repeated elsewhere. The cause of the problem is identified as not only the inability of politicians and bureaucrats to put right things that markets typically get wrong, but their tendency to make matters...

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