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Fisherman, Would You Rather Be a Logger?: Federal Resource Regulation in the Pacific Northwest
Author(s) -
Gale Richard P.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
fisheries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1548-8446
pISSN - 0363-2415
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8446(1985)010<0006:fwyrba>2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - business , livelihood , resource management (computing) , legislation , fisheries management , resource (disambiguation) , competition (biology) , environmental resource management , natural resource , natural resource management , service (business) , marine conservation , fishery , geography , ecology , agriculture , economics , fishing , political science , marketing , computer network , archaeology , computer science , law , biology
The livelihood of fishermen depends heavily upon the efficacy of management practices that govern the resource. U.S. Forest Service natural resource management policies, which have developed over the past 70 years, might be usefully applied to marine fisheries management, despite obvious differences in the resources. Characteristics that are common to both resources, such as the prevalence of federal regulatory legislation, federal management agencies, parallel management concepts, resource‐dependent communities, and foreign competition, outweigh these differences and reveal similar management problems for both resources. Three forestry policy areas that may contain promising concepts for marine fisheries management are (1) small business set‐asides, (2) sustained‐yield communities, and (3) worker‐owned processing facilities. He also suggests some of the impacts of management upon the loggers and fishermen who must live with regulatory decisions.