The Fisherman's Problem. Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980.
first edition
1986 · Cambridge
by McEvoy, Arthur F.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986 First edition. . xvii, [1], 368pp. Photographs, tables. Notes, bibliography, index. Blue cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. A scholarly study of the interaction among resource ecology, economic enterprise, and law in the history of the California fishing industry. The author discusses the different ways in which human communities have harvested and managed the region's fisheries, from those of the American Indians and immigrants from Europe and Asia to those of modern, industrial society. By reconstructing the ecological history of the fisheries during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the author develops a new perspective on environmental problems as contemporary observers understood them.. (Inventory #: 8094)