Soviet Union/Russia

Managing economies, managing nature: Industry and regulation of fisheries in the post-war Soviet Union and Norway

This article examines the structure of the post-war fishing political economies in two countries separated by the Cold War divide: the Soviet Union and Norway.

Fisheries' collapse and the making of a global event, 1950s--1970s

Analyses three fisheries crises in the post-war world – the Far East Asian Kamchatka salmon in the late 1950s, the north Atlantic Atlanto-Scandian herring of the late 1960s, and the Peruvian anchoveta of the early 1970s.

Forecasting Fisheries. Prediction and the planned economy in the Interwar Soviet Union

This essay looks at how the practices of Soviet fisheries science, focusing on the Caspian Sea region, changed in the late 1920s and 1930s.

Science, states, and salmon: Communicating through disagreement over a Cold War fault line

This essay takes the Soviet–Japanese Fisheries Convention of the Northwest Pacific Ocean of 1956 as a case study to consider the nature and characteristics of scientific disputes in highly politically-charged contexts outside frameworks of nation-states or international bodies.