Class Lectures:

Paul Rago's lecture is here. Part 1, 2, and 3. Note that these are BIG files and take time to download.

There is an enormous amount of information available for you to gain a feel for the state of the fisheries. There are a number of excellent websites listed below as well as many books on the subject. One really great book that is short and easy to read is called "Cod" and each team will be asked to read it and discuss it during the first few three weeks of the semester.

Books
Here is a list of books that I have assembled for the class--it is by no means exhaustive but contains classics like Rachael Carson's Silent Spring to Song for the Blue Ocean by Carl Safina.

1. Carson, R. (reprinted 1990) Silent Spring. First Mariner Books


2. Carson, R. (reprinted 2003) The Sea Around Us. Oxford University Press


3. Carson, R. (reprinted 1998) The Edge of the Sea.Houghton Mifflin Company


4. Safaina, C. (2006) Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth’s Last Dinosaur. Henry Holt and Company.


5. Safina, C. (1997) Song for the Blue Ocean. Henry Holt and Company


6. Pearce, F. (2007) With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change. Beacon Press


7. Kurlansky, M. (2003) Salt: A World History. Penguin Books


8. Kurlansky, M. (2006) The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell. Random House


9. Woodward, C. (2000) Ocean’s End: Travels Through Endangered Seas. Perseus Books Group


10. Levin, S. (1999) Fragile Dominion: Complexity and the Commons. Helix Books


11. A Scientific American Reader: OCEANS. The University of Chicago Press


12. Molyneaux, P. (2005) The Doryman’s Reflection: A Fisherman's Life. Thunder's Mouth Press


13. Molyneauz, P. (2007) Swimming in Circles: Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans. Thunder’s Mouth Press


14. Knecht, B.G. (2006) Hooked: Pirates, Poaching and the Perfect Fish. Holtzbrinck Publishers


15. Koslow, T. (2007) The Silent Deep: The Discovery, Ecology, and Conservation of the Deep Sea. The University of Chicago Press


16. McPhee, J. (2002) The Founding Fish. Farrar, Straus and Giroux


17. Field, J.G., Hempel, G., Summerhayes, C.P. (eds) (2002) Oceans 2020: Science,Trends, and the Challenge of Sustainability. Island Press


18. Helvarg, D. (2001) Blue Frontier: Dispatches from America’s Ocean Wilderness.
    Sierra Club Books


19. Sloan, S. (2003) Ocean Bankruptcy; World Fisheries on the Brink of Disaster. The Lyons Press


20. Iudicello, S., Weber, M., Wieland, R., (1999) Fish, Markets, and Fisherman: The Economics of Overfishing. Island Press


21. National Geographic, Special Report, Savings the Sea’s Bounty. April 2007


22. Pauly, D. (2004) Darwin’s Fishes: An Encyclopedia of Ichthyology, Ecology, and Evolution. Cambridge University Press


23. Pauly, D., Maclean J. (2003) In a Perfect Ocean: the state of the fisheries and ecosystems in the North Atlantic Ocean. Island Press


24. Norse, E. A., Crowder, L. B., (editors). (2005) Maine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea’s Biodiversity. Island Press


25. Glover, L.K., Earle, S.A. (editors) (2004) Defying Ocean’s End: An Agenda for Action. Island Press


26. Dolin, E. J., (2007) Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. W.W. Norton Company


27. Estes, J.A., Demaster, D.P., Doak, D. F., Williams, T.M., Brownell, R. L. (editors). (2006) Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems. University of California Press


28. Clover, C. (2006) The End of the Line.The New Press


29. Sverdrup, K. A., Armbrust, E.V., (2008) An Introduction to the World’s Oceans. McGraw Hill


30. Ellis, R. (2004) The Empty Ocean. Island Press/Shearwater Books


31. Franklin, Burce, H. (2007) The Most Important FISH in the Sea. Island Press/Shearwater Books


32. Issenberg, S. (2007) The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a
    Modern Delicacy. Gotham Books
33. Fishing for answers: making sense of the global fish crisis
34. World fisheries and aquaculture atlas
35. Fisheries management: progress toward sustainability
36. Fish catching methods of the world
37. The Unnatural history of the sea
38. Responsible fisheries in the marine ecosystem
39. Fish Conservation: a guide to understanding and restoring global aquatic biodiversity and fishery resources
40. National Research Council. Dynamic changes in marine ecosystems: fishing, food webs and future options
41. Aquaculture: Principles and practices
42. Fisheries ecosystem planning for Chesapeake Bay
43. Luten, J.B. et al. Seafood research from fish to dish
44. Island voices : fisheries and community survival in northern Norway
45. Economics for fisheries management
46. Bacterial fish pathogens:diseases of farmed and wild fish

On-Line Resources:
Science Consortium for Ocean Replenishment
NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Fisheries Ccience Center
Our Ocean Planet--Oceanography in the 21st century-An Online Textbook
FAO--GLOBE FISH
FAO 2007 State of the World's Fisheries
Inter-Research Marine Ecology Progress Studies


PDF's Available here
In 2001, Jeremy Jackson and his colleagues wrote his landmark paper entitled:Historical overfishing and the recent collapse of Coastal Ecosystems.
Towards sustainability in world fisheries
United Nations State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture, 2006 Report
The Sea Around Us
Fishing Down the Deep