Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 153-157).

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [55-60]).

This thesis presents a catch allocation model that was developed for J.S. McMillan Fisheries, Ltd. A linear program (LP) was developed to allocate chum salmon catches of variable size to a set of end products, where both the input salmon and output products are differentiated based on strict physical characteristics and quality requirements. The LP is designed to maximise the net profit of a catch subject to constraints on processing line capacity, market orders, and an upper boundary on production. A decision support tool was built around the LP model to facilitate user-directed reporting and updating of model parameters. The decision tool was shown to improve the structuring of the decision process, decrease the company's reliance on expert knowledge in making the catch allocation decision, as well as significantly decrease the time investment in the decision process.

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The following is a case study of the Northeast Fisheries Project, in Northeast Thailand, carried out jointly by the Canadian International Development Agency, its implementing agency and the Thai Department of Fisheries from 1986 to 1990. The formulation and events surrounding the project will be reviewed, with special emphasis on an experimental extension program which was pivotal to the project's success. Overall, the project did not succeed in meeting its objectives, and the purpose of this study is to examine the role of Thai values, social structure and bureaucracy, in contributing to this failure. Specifically, we will consider Thailand as a 'bureaucratic polity', the history and dynamics of patron-client relationships, and how these factors interact in the context of development projects and programs.

This thesis addresses questions of identity and ontological legitimacywithin the commercial shark fishing community of Bass Strait,Australia. I consider the implications of competing discourses for theintegrity of fisher identity, environmental conservation and publicnarratives on environmental ‘crises’. I draw upon ethnographic materialdeveloped with commercial fishers and, to a lesser extent, fisheries‘experts’, to explore ambiguities in understandings of individuality andperceptions of the marine environment. Informing this analysis aretheories of practice, particularly notions of embodied relationships andknowledge, the role of ‘luck’ in enabling a particular expression of‘individuality’, the ‘skipper effect’, a consideration of nation-statesanctioned and popular media representations of the environment, andthe peculiarly Australian experience and representation of individuality,both as performance and as trope. These themes are consideredagainst a backdrop of the physical and social activities involved incommercial fishing, and the 2001 nation-state-initiated introduction ofan Individual Transferable Quota management system.

Thesis (Ph.D.) - James Cook University, 2006. / Appendix 2 (p. 444-454) contains the Research Agreement between the author and the Hopevale Community which governs further research or publications arising from the thesis. Typescript (photocopy). Bibliography: leaves 373-441.

Thesis--University of Basle. / Bibliography: p. 336-339.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 179-194).

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, June, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.