CHARLES CANN Former Deputy Secretary, the Ministry of Agriculture (1991-96)DAVID STEEL Employed in the European Parliament (fisheries, agriculture and budgetary questions)MIREILLE THOM Researcher, Highlands of ScotlandTIM OLIVER Editor of Fishing News for 10 Years ROBERT O'CONNOR Emeritus Professor, Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin (died in January 97)BRENDAN MCNAMARA Consultant in European Business AffairsKNUT MIKALSEN Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of TromsoMARK GRAY Fisheries Researcher, based in AngleseyJEREMY PHILLIPSON Currently working within the School of Geography and Earth Resources, University of HullJOHN GOODLAD Chief Executive of both the Shetland and Fishermen's Association and the Shetland Fish Producers' OrganisationKEVIN CREAN Deputy Director, University of Hull International Fisheries InstituteDAVID SYMES Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of HullBARRIE DEAS Chief Executive, National Federation of Fishermen's OrganisationGISLI PALSSON Professor of Anthropology, University of Iceland, Reykjavik

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Fishing - A Defence of Politics; T. S. Gray The Politics of Fishing - A Fisheries Manager's Point of View; C. Cann The Role of the European Parliament in the Development of the CFP; D. Steel The Determinants of Fishing Policy: A Comparison of British and French Policies; M. Thom Can Quotas Save Stocks?; T. Oliver Individual Transferable Quotas and Property Rights; R. O'Connor and B. McNamara Regulation and Representation: Institutional Challenges in Fisheries Management; K. Mikalsen Recent Industry Participation in UK Fisheries Policy: Legitimacy of Political Expediency?; M. Gray The Poetical Culture of Fisheries Management: An Anglo - Danish Comparison of User Participation; J. Phillipson Sectoral Quota Management - Fisheries Management by Fish Producers' Organisations; J. Goodlad Establishing Sea Territories: A Way Forward for the Development of the Fisheries of the EU?; K. Crean Towards 2002: Subsidiarity and the Regionalisation of the CFP; D. Symes Coastal State Management; B. Deas The Birth of the Aquarium: the Political Ecology of Icelandic Fishing; G. Palsson Fishing and Fairness: The Justice of the CFP; T.S. Gary Index