| All the fish in the sea: maximum sustainable yield and the failure of fisheries management C Finley University of Chicago Press, 2019 | 219 | 2019 |
| Evolutionary and ecological constraints of fish spawning habitats L Ciannelli, K Bailey, EM Olsen ICES Journal of Marine Science 72 (2), 285-296, 2015 | 102 | 2015 |
| Maximum sustained yield: a policy disguised as science C Finley, N Oreskes ICES Journal of Marine Science 70 (2), 245-250, 2013 | 80 | 2013 |
| The social construction of fishing, 1949 C Finley Ecology and Society 14 (1), 2009 | 56 | 2009 |
| Transdisciplinary graduate education in marine resource science and management L Ciannelli, M Hunsicker, A Beaudreau, K Bailey, LB Crowder, C Finley, ... ICES Journal of Marine Science 71 (5), 1047-1051, 2014 | 46 | 2014 |
| All the boats on the ocean: how government subsidies led to global overfishing C Finley University of Chicago Press, 2019 | 44 | 2019 |
| The industrialization of commercial fishing, 1930–2016 C Finley Oxford research encyclopedia of environmental science, 2016 | 18 | 2016 |
| Two paths toward sustainable forests BA Shindler, TM Beckley, MC Finley | 17 | 2003 |
| Developing a common understanding of taxonomy for fisheries management in north Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands P Cohen, S Tapala, A Rikio, E Kukiti, F Sori, Z Hilly, TJ Alexander, S Foale SPC Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Information …, 2014 | 15 | 2014 |
| Beyond the economic model: Assessing sustainability in forest communities S Nadeau, BA Shindler, C Kakoyannis, TM Beckley, MC Finley Two Paths Towards Sustainable Forests, 60-74, 2003 | 13 | 2003 |
| A political history of maximum sustained yield, 1945–1955 C Finley Oceans Past, 189-206, 2012 | 9 | 2012 |
| Seeking sustainable forests in North America BA Shindler, TM Beckley, MC Finley Shindler, BA, TM Beckley and MC Finley (eds), 2003 | 7 | 2003 |
| Fish Unlimited: How Maximum Sustained Yield Failed Fishermen. C Finley Solutions: For a Sustainable & Desirable Future 2 (1), 2011 | 4 | 2011 |
| Maxing out our take C Safina Science 335 (6065), 169-170, 2012 | 3 | 2012 |
| Fish tales: salmon stories, 1945-1980 C Finley | 2 | 2000 |
| Multi-disciplinary higher education is critical for marine ecosystem sustainability M Hunsicker, L Ciannelli, JM Anderies, KM Bailey, P Chigbu, C Finley, ... Ecological society of America, 2012 | 1 | 2012 |
| A Historical Analysis of the Collapse of Pacific Groundfish: US Fisheries Science, Development, and Management, 1945–1995 N Oreskes, C Finley | 1 | 2007 |
| Post-War Reconnaissance of Japanese Fishery and Ocean Science and Its Contribution to the Development of US Scientific Programs: 1947–1954 C Finley Ocean Governance: Knowledge Systems, Policy Foundations and Thematic …, 2023 | | 2023 |
| Book Review: Too Valuable to be Lost: Overfishing in the North Atlantic since 1880 by Alvaro Garrido & David J. Starkey C Finley International Journal of Maritime History 34 (3), 505-506, 2022 | | 2022 |
| Overrun: Dispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis C Finley Environmental History 25 (2), 430-432, 2020 | | 2020 |
