Experiential Exercise

The category that I was given was fisheries in California.

I first started by deciding what my two topics would be that I would research. My first topic is the use of drift nets in fisheries in California and the law for fisheries in California. Then I went on to my sources using the library catalog, CQ Weekly database, Academic Search Premier, GeoBase database and the World Wide Web. I used the library catalog, CQ Weekly and Academic Search Premier for my first topic, and GeoBase and the interent for my second topic. This way seems more structerd to me so I do so.

The search terms that I entered into the library catalog were: Califoria fisheries law and I only got eleven results. I changed the terms to California fisheries and got 128 results. According to the tiitles from my results all of them were relevant. From the results I choose The fisherman's problem ecology and law in the California fisheries, 1850-1980.

Next I went to CQ Weekly and my search terms were: California fisheries law and got 91 results which is around 100. The results were all relevant to fisheries law, however none were specifc to California. Next I opened a few articles and found that they are all from Washington D.C.; the articles all were about the whole country then, but that includes California. From the results the article I choose was Fishing Rewrite Proves Slippery.

Next I went to Academic Search Premier and my search term re: California fisheries law and I got no results. I changed the terms to fisheries in California and got fourteen results. Academic Search Premier doesnt have many results for my topic so fourteen results were as much I was going to get. Next I evalute my results and 12 0f the 14 results were revelant. From the results I choose was Inverse regional responses to climate change and fishing intensity by the recreational rockfish (Sebastes spp.) fishery in California.

Next I went to GeoBase and my search terms were: California fisheries drift nets and I got only one result. I changed the terms to California fisheries net and got sixteen results. Next I evaluted my results and they are all relevant. From the results the source that I choose was Gillnets and cetaceans, incorporating the proceedings of the symposium and workshop on the mortality of cetaceans in passive fishing nets and traps.

For my last source I looked on the World Wide Web under the Yahoo database. My search terms were: California fisheries drift nets and I got 115,000 results. I narrow my results by changing the search terms to: California's law on fisheries and drift nets, and got 44,000 results. From the first page of results I find a very relevant site, http://www.fishsniffer.com/dbachere/032301banpelagic.html.

Here is all the bibliographic citation information for all of my five sources:

The Fisherman's Problem Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980, by Arthur F. Mcevoy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Fishing Rewrite Proves Slippery, by Manu Raja, Washington,D.C., SAGE Publications, 2006.

Inverse Regional Respones to Climate Change and Fishing Intensity By the Recreational Rockfisk (Sebastes spp.) fishery in California, by William Bennett, Canadian Journal of Fisheriesand Aquatic Sciences p.2499-2510, 2004.

Gillnets and Cetaceans, Incorporating the Proceedings of the Symposium and Workshop on the Mortality of Cetacea, by Perrin W.F., International Whaling Commission, Cambridge, 1994.

http://www.fishsniffer.com/dbachere/032301banpelagic.html, Recreational Fishery Groups Press for Federal Ban on Pelagic Long Lines, by Dan Bacher, copyright 1997-2001, 2001.

The two sources that I will evalute the content are: http://www.fishsniffer.com/dbachere/032301banpelagic.html, and The Fisherman's Problem Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries.
The Fisherman's Problem is an EBook with 250 pages that contain detalied information about calironia fisheries, the fisherman and the changing enviroment around them. Overall the content is great and is relative to my first topic.
My source from the World Wide Web is an article that contains information about pelagic longlines and how people feel they should be banned because of the unwanted fish that are also caught that get killed. This was a great article that is relative to my secound topic.

Here are the two reasearch questions about my subject:

1. How is global warming and the chaning climate going to affect the future of fisheries in California?

2. What are the consequences of using drift nets and how would the California fisheries market
be different if they were legal in California?

Two additional databases that I would use to search for more information would be GeoRef and Britannica Online.

Here is a brief descripiton on my research topic (fisheries in california):
Fisheries in general are industries that catch, process and sell fish. There are different rules and laws for fisheries depending on what state they are in. In california drift nets are illegal nd many Californian fisheries want nouthin to do with drift nets. Fisheries in California have declined over the years. Overal Fisheries in California are great industries that provide jobs, reneuve, and have many rules and regulations like all other industries.