This paper presents Canada's fisheries policy. Making optimal use of fishery resources for the people of Canada requires appropriate government action in three important policy areas. They are concerned with: -bilogical sustainability; -economic efficiency; -social equity.

In this paper I intend to offer a general assessment of major alternatives in fisheries management. My analysis will be confined to fisheries management systems that are pertinent to industrially advanced countries, where the need for such systems is apparent and where the financial,...

This paper was presented by the author at the hearings of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development, held in Terrace, B.C., on 15 November 1999. The question is whether the fishery provisions of the Nisga'a Final Agreement are such that they such...

This paper addresses the critical problems that are developing in the marine environment of the North Pacific. We need to consider the nature of the measures required to conserve our resources so as to optimize sustainable yields. Along with that we need to advance an approach to equitable...

This paper proposes a salmon management strategy for the dual purpose of strengthening the economies of First Nation river communities and substantially increasing the production of salmon from the Fraser and Skeena watersheds for the benefit of all stakeholders. This would involve an initial...

This paper proposes a salmon management strategy for the dual purpose of strengthening the economies of First Nation river communities and substantially increasing the production of salmon from the Fraser and Skeena watersheds for the benefit of all stakeholders. This would involve an initial...

This paper is intended to revisit the question of rational fisheries exploitation raised by Gordon in his celebrated 1954 article in the Journal of Political Economy, that has served as the starting point for the development of the fisheries economics sub-discipline.