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Author Kurlansky, Mark.

Title World without fish : how could we let this happen? / Mark Kurlansky
Published New York : Workman Pub., 2011

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 MELB CRC  333.95616 Kur/Wwf  AVAILABLE
Description xxiii, 183 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction : being a brief outline of the problem -- chapter 1. Being a short exposition about what could happen and how it would happen -- chapter 2. Being the true story of how humans first began to fish and how fishing became in industry -- chapter 3. Being the sad, cautionary tale of the orange roughy -- chapter 4. Being the myth of nature's bounty and how scientists got it wrong for many years -- chapter 5. Being a concise history of the politics of fish -- chapter 6. Being an examination of why we can't simply stop fishing -- chapter 7. Being a detailed look at four possible solutions and why they alone won't work -- chapter 8. The best solution to overfishing : sustainable fishing -- chapter 9. How pollution is killing fish, too -- chapter 10. How global warming is also killing fish -- chapter 11. Time to wake up and smell the fish
Summary Examines the threats to the survival of fish in the world's oceans, discussing the damage caused by various types of fishing equipment, the impact of politics on the regulation of fishing, and the harmful effects of overfishing, pollution, and global warming
Notes Includes index
Subject Overfishing -- Juvenile literature.
Overfishing.
Rare fishes -- Juvenile literature.
Rare fishes.
Sustainable fisheries -- Juvenile literature.
Sustainable fisheries.
Author Stockton, Frank.
LC no. 2011015516
ISBN 9780761156079 (hbk.)