Canada now faces two looming policy crises that have come to a head in British Columbia. The first is long-term depletion of the Pacific salmon fishery by mobile commercial ocean fishermen racing to intercept salmon under the rule of capture. The second is an unsettling series of native land...

A survey of legal developments in maritime law, including an initiative to reform the Fisheries Act, limits on the subject matter giving rise to federal admiralty jurisdiction, application of the limitation in the Marine Liability Act on contractual choices of foreign jurisdictions, application...

The paper examines how an easy-to-apply optimal feedback rule can be used to solve for optimal levels of exploitation of a renewable resource. Using data from Canada's northern cod fishery, the optimal feedback rule is used to derive optimal levels of exploitation for the years 1962-91 under...