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Arthur McEvoy, The Fisherman's Problem

"In The Fisherman's Problem, Arthur F. McEvoy researches the ecological and legal background of California's fisheries from the days of the American Indians up to this decade. In it, he clarifies, and annotates in painstaking detail, the environmental and social issues relating not only to West Coast fisheries but also to the theory and politics of resource ma

Michael Chiarappa and Kristin Szylvian, Fish for All: An Oral History of Multiple Claims and Divided Sentiment on Lake Michigan

A wonderful compilation of testimony of various stakeholders in Lake Michigan fisheries.

Hillary Steward, Indian Fishing: Early Methods on the Northwest Coast 

First published in 1977 and unavailable for several years, Indian Fishing is more than a sterile account of the technology of fishing; it considers the momentous role of fish and fishing in the lives of the Northwest Coast peoples. A classic, thoroughly researched and informative text, it examines fishing techniques of the peopl

Jen Corrinne Brown, Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West

From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It, trout fishing is a beloved feature of the iconography of the American West. But as Jen Brown demonstrates in Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West, the popular conception of Rocky Mountain trout fishing as a q

Joseph E. Taylor III, Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis

"Taylor's purpose is to help us understand just how hard it is to grapple with ecological problems that are also intensely cultural and political and economic. . . . By showing us how complicated the human history of salmon has been in the past, Taylor assembles the essential tools we need for thinking m

Jim Lichatowich, Salmon Without Rivers: A History of the Pacific Salmon Crisis

In Salmon Without Rivers, fisheries biologist Jim Lichatowich offers an eye-opening look at the roots and evolution of the salmon crisis in the Pacific Northwest. He describes the multitude of factors over the past century and a half that have led to the salmon's decline, and examines in depth the abject failure of resto