Sustainability and the Dis-integration of Conservation and Development in the Northwest Atlantic Fishery

• Published in: Journal of Canadian Studies
• Main Author: Rogers, Raymond A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) 1996
• Subjects: History; Cultural Studies; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jcs.31.1.7; https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/jcs.31.1.7

This paper begins with the premise that the sustainability debate is a recent, largely theoretical, discussion about conservation of the natural world. A second premise claims that there is a close similarity between the theory of sustainability and the resource management theory which informed the regulation of the Northwest Atlantic fishery. When the close similarity in theory is linked to a recognition that the practice of conservation in the fishery has failed catastrophically, there arises the possibility that the failure of the practice of conservation in the fishery can be a valuable. case study for shedding light on the theory of sustainability.