Managed Annihilation

Dean L.Y. Bavington is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

• Foreword: This Is More Difficult Than We Thought / Graeme WynnPreface1 A Sea Swarming with Fish2 The Birth and Development of Cod Fisheries Management3 Success through Failure: The Expansion of Management after the Moratorium4 Socio-Ecological System Description of the Cod Fishery5 From Managing Fish to Managing Fishermen6 Managing Cod from Egg to Plate7 Articulating Management into Cod Fisheries8 Alternatives to Management and Managerial EcologyNotesBibliographyIndex

The sorry state of ocean life has led to a new kind of fish story—a lament not for the one that got away but for the countless others that didn't…Dean Bavington…observes that two hundred billion pounds' worth of cod were taken from Canada's Grand Banks before 1992, when the cod simply ran out. - Elizabeth Kolbert (The Scales Fall, The New Yorker) Bavington's critique of existing management approaches is strong, and opens the door to a worthwhile discussion.- Tracy Yandle, Emory University (International Journal of Martime History, Vol XXII, No 2) This book ... is valuable to those seeking a fresh, provocative approach to the northern cod fishery in particular and to natural resource management in general. Summing Up: Highly recommended. - .A. Hutchings, Dalhousie University (CHOICE, Vol. 48, No. 8) The sorry state of ocean life has led to a new kind of fish story – a lament not for the one that got away but for the countless others that didn't...Dean Bavington...observes that two hundred billion pounds worth of cod were taken from Canada's grand banks before 1992, when the cod simply ran out. - Elizabeth Kolbert (The New Yorker)