Visitors to Voyageurs National Park have the opportunity to boat, paddle, swim, and fish on a historic water passageway credited with "the opening of the Northwestern United States". However, the movement of visitors between water bodies within the park and larger region can harm aquatic habitats...

This chapter describes harvesting and some other topics that have not been covered in detail, which are still associated with aquaculture and integral to the discipline. Included are live-hauling, anaesthesia, fee-fishing, processing, marketing, recreational fishing, bait species and other topics....

This chapter highlights different types of fishing tourism in the Arctic and discusses how the industry can become responsible through its customers. The chapter ends by presenting a practical tool, the business canvas model, and demonstrates how it can be used with different tourist segments in...

Visitors to Voyageurs National Park have the opportunity to boat, paddle, swim, and fish on a historic water passageway credited with "the opening of the Northwestern United States". However, the movement of visitors between water bodies within the park and larger region can harm aquatic habitats...

This chapter examines the physical setting, the historical touristic evolution, the physical degradation, human adaptation and the current role of the sinking fishing destination of Grand Isle, Louisiana, USA.

This chapter is concerned with the fishing assets (including rivers, estuaries, lakes and billabongs) of the Northern Territory (Australia) and how their use might reflect on innovation in the tourism destination system. Specifically, the chapter examines the level of diversity in the fishing...

This chapter examines five sectors of commercial tourism that at present dominate and provide variety within the polar market: (1) mass tourism by cruise ships and commercial transport; (2) sport fishing and hunting; (3) nature tourism; (4) adventure tourism; and (5) culture and heritage tourism....

Biotechnology is permanently linked not only to aquaculture but also to commercial and recreational fisheries, because of its potential positive and negative impacts on these resources. A brief account of the history of genetic biotechnology use in aquaculture and fisheries is given in this chapter.

This book contains 17 chapters. Topics covered are: management of marine aquaculture: the sustainability challenge; marine mammals and aquaculture: conflicts and potential resolutions; recreational fishing and aquaculture: throwing a line into the pond; aquaculture: opportunity of threat to...

Mariculture is increasing as traditional commercial fisheries production declines. World aquaculture production (freshwater and marine) has doubled since 1984 and reached a record 20 900 000 tonnes in 1995. Total worth exceeded $36 billion worldwide. In the US production annually exceeds 400 000...