Arthur F. McEvoy

TL;DR: In this article, the problem of environment is addressed in the context of Aboriginal fishery management and state power and the right to fish in the Indian Ocean, and the bureaucrat's problem is discussed.

TL;DR: McEvoy as mentioned in this paper shows how the California fishing industry, drawing upon some of the most fertile renewable resources in the world, underwent massive, thoroughgoing modernization in the first quarter of this century, triggered by the mechanization of fishing and the coincident opening of worldwide markets to local fish processors.

TL;DR: The California Marine Research Committee was established by the state legislature in 1947 in response to the catastrophic failure of the Pacific Coast sardine fishery as discussed by the authors, where scientists, state and federal resourcemanagment officials, and industry leaders put aside long-standing differences of viewpoint to launch a uniquely comprehensive, multidisciplinary research effort.