List of Illustrations • Acknowledgements • Introduction • Spatial Strategies and Territoriality • The Island Game: Informal Rules and the Factors Producing Them • The Genesis of State Laws for the Lobster Industry • Co-management in the Maine Lobster Industry • Science and Local Knowledge • Dealing with the Feds • The Politics of Science • Conclusion • Notes • References Cited • Index
JAMES M. ACHESON is Professor of Anthropology and Marine Sciences at the University of Maine. He is author of The Lobster Gangs of Maine (UPNE 1988), one of the first popular studies of the lobster industry.
. . . fishermen, scientists, regulators, and especially politicians
would do well to absorb its lessons.-- "Down East"
"[This] is an extremely fine, informative read. [Acheson] provides
a competent, convincing course on the difficult management of a
common resource, especially one where there is a lack of resource
predictability and great uncertainties, all complicated with the
tangled matrix in which the culture, institutions and formal
regulations unfolds. It is highly recommended."-- "International
Journal of Maritime History"
An intriguing book that will interest fishermen, resource managers,
and scholars... this book is a timely and important one, in light
of the fact that sixty percent of the world's fisheries are in
various states of degradation and crisis.-- "Northeastern
Naturalist"
Documenting the way in which different kinds of formal and informal
institutions were developed to manage the booming Maine lobster
industry, providing a case study of the management of one highly
successful fishery, and, by doing so, contributing to the body of
theory concerning the conditions under which people will and will
not devise institutions to manage natural resources.-- "Natural
Resources Journal"
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