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Journal Article Fisheries Exploitation Off Canada's West Coast: The Effects of National Policy(1981) Copes, Parzival"Over the past three decades there has been a manifold increase in the exploitation efforts applied to the world's marine fish stocks. By the end of the 1960s there were clear signs of biological overfishing for many of the more desirable and accessible stocks; annual catches were declining despite increasing fishing efforts. Recognition of this irrational use of the world's fish resources led to attempts at corrective action in two spheres. Domestically, several countries introduced management measures that regulated fishing efforts, with the aim both of conserving stocks and of improving economic returns to the fishing industry."Journal Article A Review of Some Pelagic Fish Stocks in Other Areas(1980) Troadec, Jean-Paul; Clark, W.G.; Gulland, J.A."In addition to their immediate interest for a better utilization of fish resources, investigations into the factors that determine the collapses frequently observed in pelagic fisheries have a direct bearing on the understanding of some of the key problems which fishery science is facing today, namely, the determination of the shape and variability of the stock-recruitment relationship and its effects on the longterm, natural variability of fish stocks."Journal Article Low-Profile Subsistence Fishery: Pike Fishing in Minto Flats, Alaska(1989) Andrews, E. F."Subsistence research in contemporary communities in rural Alaska is revealing the important contribution of fish species other than salmon to the food supply, yet the subsistence use of non-salmon species has had a low profile in management and regulatory regimes of the fisheries in Alaska. Management concerns arose when a developing northern pike (Esox lucius) sport fishery occurred in an area with preexisting subsistence uses of pike stocks. The Minto Flats subsistence pike fishery has been part of Minto villages subsistence economy throughout the century, whereas sport fishing for pike in Minto Flats is comparatively recent, coinciding with the growth of the nearby regional center of Fairbanks. The identification of a preexisting subsistence fishery combined with field research to record harvest levels, geographic areas used, and seasonality of harvest contributed to a management plan that enabled conservation and harvest of the resource. Knowledge about the subsistence fishery allowed regulations to be established that provided for compatible uses of the pike fishery by subsistence and sport fishermen by segregating the fisheries in time and place and employing standard management tools."Journal Article Preliminary Impacts of the James Bay Hydroelectric Project, Quebec, on Estukarine Fish and Fisheries(1982) Berkes, Fikret"Flow alterations related to hydroelectric development have affected both the fish stocks and the Cree Indian subsistence fishery in the lower LaGrande River, northern Quebec. Evaluated against several years of baseline data, thei nitial biological impact of the project on fish populations, mostly whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) and cisco (C. artedii), appeared to be relatively small. Nevertheless, fishing activity in the lower river and the estuary largely ceased from 1979 to 1981, due to physical modifications of traditional fishing areas and other social and economic effects related to the hydro project. Some fishermen modified their methods and continued harvesting in the affected area, but others abandoned the affected area and fished lakes and rivers along the recently constructed road network. It is concluded that earlier impact assessments fell short of predicting these impacts."