Abstract
This book originated in a colloquium on the politics of fishing that I organized on 17–18 September 1996 at Newcastle University. The aim of the colloquium was to bring together fishers,2 officials, scientists and academics from several countries to discuss the issues which underlie the current crisis in the fishing industry, in the context of the charged political atmosphere within which decision-makers operate. The central (but not exclusive) focus of the colloquium was on the working of the European Union’s (EU’s) Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), which has become the subject of intense political debate, especially in the United Kingdom (UK), during the last three or four years.
I am grateful to Anthony Stenson and Linda Cotterrell for conducting interviews in 1993 and 1996 respectively, which I have drawn on in this introductory chapter. I am also grateful to Ella Ritchie, Tony Zito and Mark Gray for their comments on an earlier version of this chapter.
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Gray, T.S. (1998). Fishing: a Defence of Politics. In: Gray, T.S. (eds) The Politics of Fishing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26775-0_1
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