Edited by Harold Coward, Rosemary Ommer, and Tony Pitcher Today in Canada, the fish stocks of both the east and west coasts are in serious trouble.
Coastal communities are in crisis.
The majority of the great world fisheries are seriously over-exploited, and some bodies of water are effectively dead. The problem has to lie with the manner in which we run our fisheries. The issues are ethical as well as social and environmental. A team of humanists, natural scientists, and social scientists came together to examine the question of justice in the Canadian fisheries and to seek an ethical foundation upon which to base guidelines for fisheries policies and decision-making in the future.