Fisheries have rarely been'sustainable'. Rather, fishing has induced serial depletions, long
masked by improved technology, geographic expansion and exploitation of previously …

In the domain of decision‐support tools for the management of marine fish resources,
considerable attention has been paid to the development of models explaining how fish …

The ocean is a critical source of nutrition for billions of people, with potential to yield further
food, profits, and employment in the future (1). But fisheries face a serious new challenge as …

Renewable resource management would seem to provide a fertile area for the application of
economic analysis, whether classical or modern. The last of Adam Smith's three sources of …

A comprehensive, self-contained survey of the theory and applications of differential games,
one of the most commonly used tools for modelling and analysing economics and …

The world's marine fisheries are in trouble, as a direct result of overfishing and the
overcapacity of fishing fleets. Despite intensive management efforts, the problems still …

African maritime countries take the majority of their animal protein from fish. Bound with
tradition and a promise of food and other values, African fisheries also provide a source of …

Climate change is shifting the distribution of shared fish stocks between neighboring
countries' Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) and the high seas. The timescale of these …

The “tragedy of the commons”(Ref. 1) has proved particularly difficult to counteract in the
case of marine fishery resources (Refs. 2–4), where the establishment of individual property …

This paper surveys the current state and major trends in global fisheries; the environmental
and social dimensions of fisheries; and explains how the international community has tried …