Binding: Paperback
Description: Alaska pollock is everywhere. If you re eating fish but you don t know what kind it is it's almost certainly pollock. Prized for its generic fish taste pollock masquerades as crab meat in california rolls and seafood salads and it feeds millions as fish sticks in school cafeterias and Filet - O - Fish sandwiches at Mc Donald s. That ubiquity has made pollock the most lucrative fish harvest in America the fishery in the United States alone has an annual value of over one billion dollars. But even as the money rolls in pollock is in trouble: in the last few years the pollock population has declined by more than half and some scientists are predicting the fishery's eventual collapse. In Billion - Dollar Fish Kevin M. Bailey combines his years of firsthand pollock research with a remarkable talent for storytelling to offer the first natural history of Alaska pollock. Crucial to understanding the pollock fishery he shows is recognizing what aspects of its natural history make pollock so very desirable to fish while at the same time making it resilient yet highly vulnerable to overfishing. Bailey delves into the science politics and economics surrounding Alaska pollock in the Bering Sea detailing the development of the fishery the various political machinations that have led to its current management and perhaps most important its impending demise. He approaches his subject from multiple angles bringing in the perspectives of fishermen politicians environmentalists and biologists and drawing on revealing interviews with players who range from Greenpeace activists to fishing industry lawyers. Seamlessly weaving the biology and ecology of pollock with the history and politics of the fishery as well as Bailey's own often raucous tales about life at sea Billion - Dollar Fish is a book for every person interested in the troubled relationship between fish and humans from the depths of the sea to the dinner plate.
Title: Billion - Dollar Fish The Untold Story Of Alaska Pollock
Author(s): Bailey Kevin M.
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226792170
Pages: 300 Pages, 33 Halftones, 7 Line Drawings
Publication Date: 6/1/2021
Category: Reptiles & Amphibians As Pets