Just Fish Ethics and Canadian Marine Fisheries

Harold Coward is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. His main fields of interest are comparative religion, psychology of religion, and environmental ethics. He serves as an executive member of the Board, Canadian Global Change Program. His publications include Ethics and Climate Change (1993, with Thomas Hurka) and Pluralism: Challenge to World Religions (1985).

Rosemary Ommer has been Professor of History at Memorial University of Newfoundland and is the former Research Director of Memorial's Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER). She was the Principal Investigator of the Tricounsil-funded Ecoresearch Project, "Sustainability in a Cold-Ocean Coastal Environment," investigating the sustainability of communities of fish and fishers in Newfoundland in the wake of the collapse of the groundfish stocks off Canada's east coast. She is the Director of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary. She is also co-editor (with Dianne Newell) of Fishing Places, Fishing People: Issues in Canadian Small-Scale Fisheries (1999) and project director of "Coasts Under Stress."

Tony Pitcher received his doctorate from Oxford University and has taught at universities in London, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Germany. Since 1993 he has been Professor of Fisheries and the first Director of the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia. He founded the journal Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, the leading journal in its field, and founded another journal, Fish and Fisheries. His fisheries research, training, work, and consultancy have involved him in projects throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Latin America and have lead to over 200 scientific publications, including 13 books, more than 20 Ph.D. students, and methods and concepts that are used throughout the world.