U.S. Pacific Islanders and the Sea: A History of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (1976-2020) (Markrich Michael)(Pevná vazba)

In 1976, the United States claimed waters out to 200 nautical miles from its shores as its fishery conservation zone (now known as theexclusive economic zone, or EEZ). This action by the U.S. Congress aimed to develop and protect the nation's domestic fisheries by banning foreign fishing in waters adjacent to the United States without a fishing agreement, except to target tunas.
Ironically, tunas were and continue to be culturally, socially and economically important species in the U.S. Pacific Islands, which account for half of the nation's EEZ waters. Getting tunas recognized as "fish" in the Fishery Conservation and Management Act (known today as the Magnuson-Stevens Act, or MSA) was one of many ground-breaking achievements of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council. The 1990 amendment to the MSA allowed the Council to address not only
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