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Fishermen and other resource users find this book an indispensable primer on the legal basis for rights to the fish in Alaska waters. The author defines how governments and tribes have authority for fish management and taking; explains the interplay among federal constitutional law, state common law, and statutes; and describes the legal balancing needed to resolve competition for the resource. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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In order to recognize and strengthen the benefits of commercial fisheries to Alaska coastal economies, organizers of the "Managing Fisheries Empowering Communities" conference brought together local residents, fishermen, leaders of fisheries cooperatives, NOAA and state fisheries leaders, and management decision-makers, as well as social scientists and anthropologists. Limited entry and quota share programs have, in some cases, seen fishing access move away from smaller communities. The presentations and work group summaries in this book represent a first step toward recognizing the importance of fisheries to r ... Read more

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Twenty-five extended abstracts and a panel discussion on bycatch management are included in this book, the proceedings of a 1996 American Fisheries Society symposium on bycatch. The AFS meeting was convened to discuss research because of increasing concern about bycatch of fishes, crustaceans, mammals, and turtles in commercial and recreational fisheries. The meeting helped define the impact on target and bycatch species, and the socioeconomic consequences of reducing bycatch. Research contributions include fishery bycatch estimation, impact, and mitigation. ... Read more