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Subject(s)

• Double-crested cormorant [Browse]
• Double-crested cormorant—Conservation [Browse]
• Fishery management—United States [Browse]
• Fishery management—Canada [Browse]
• Bird pests—North America [Browse]
• Bird populations—North America [Browse]

Illustrator

• MacKay, Barry Kent, 1943- [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-335) and index.

Contents

• Aristotle's raven : an introduction to cormorants
• The double-crested cormorant
• European colonization and the making of a pariah
• From Audubon to conservation : the first wave of recovery
• Reversal of fortunes : another decline and the second recovery
• Fish ponds and reservoirs : the context for conflict on the wintering grounds
• Animal damage control and the first standing depredation order for cormorants
• Conflicts on the breeding grounds
• The second standing depredation order for cormorants
• A half million and counting : implementation of management policies in the United States
• Looking north to Canada : limitations to management beyond the 49th parallel
• Untangling the mysteries between predator and prey
• Adaptive management : a process gone awry
• Back to the wintering grounds : liberties with science and policy
• Engineer or destroyer : the case of the catastrophic ecosystem flip
• Opening Pandora's box : some ethical implications of cormorant management
• Afterword : What future for cormorants?.

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ISBN

• 0300187114
• 9780300187113

LCCN

2013957500

OCLC

861322954

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