Fishing for a Solution ─ Canada's Fisheries Relations With the European Union, 1977-2013

Fishing for a Solution provides a detailed, policy-based account of the development of Canada’s fisheries relations with the European Union and includes the experience of participants from inside the deliberations and negotiations. It covers over thirty-five years of this contentious international relationship, from the establishment of Canada’s 200-mile offshore limit in 1977 to the progress made in approving the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) Convention proposed in 2007. For anyone interested in the workings of Canadian foreign policy, resource policy, or in the complexities of managing international relations, it offers a unique account of the development of Canada-EU fisheries relations, blending the academic perspective of a long-time student of those relations with the insights of two former senior public servants who served within the international directorate of Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

Donald Barry is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Calgary. Bob Applebaum was Director General of the International Directorate at the Government of Canada Department of Fisheries and Oceans from 1983 to 1995. Earl Wiseman was Director General of the International Directorate at the Government of Canada Department of Fisheries and Oceans from 1995 to 2002.