Title Capturing the commons : devising institutions to manage the Maine lobster industry / James M. Acheson.

Publication Info.	Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, [2003]
	©2003

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 264 pages) : maps
	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Spatial strategies and territoriality -- The island game : informal rules and the factors producing them -- The genesis of state laws for the lobster industry -- Co-management in the Maine lobster industry -- Science and local knowledge -- Dealing with the feds -- The politics of science.
Summary	A case study of the Maine lobster fishery, one of the most successful fisheries in the world.
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Subject	Lobster industry -- Government policy -- Maine -- Citizen participation.
	Lobster industry.
	Government policy.
	Maine.
	Political participation.
	Lobster fishers -- Maine.
	Lobster fishers.
	Lobster fisheries -- Maine.
	Lobster fisheries.
	Fishery policy -- Maine.
	Fishery policy.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Acheson, James M. Capturing the commons. Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, ©2003 (DLC) 2002153372 (OCoLC)50982358
ISBN	9781611687385 (electronic book)
	1611687381 (electronic book)
	1584653175 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	9781584653172 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	1584653930
	9781584653936