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Although Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing – or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers "...

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All the Fish in the Sea Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management

Finley Carmel

ISBN: PB: 9780226701622, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 3 line drawings

Between 1949 and 1955, the State Department pushed for an international fisheries policy grounded in maximum sustainable yield (MSY). The concept is based on a confidence that scientists can predict, theoretically, the largest catch that can be taken...

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Alaska Codfish Chronicle A History of the Pacific Cod Fishery in Alaska

Mackovjak James

ISBN: PB: 9781602233898, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
557 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 70 halftones

Cod is one of the most widely consumed fish in the world. For many years, the Atlantic cod industry took center stage, but partly thanks to climate change and overfishing, it is more and more likely that the cod on your kitchen table or in your fast...

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Ark and Beyond The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation

Minteer Ben A., Maienschein Jane, Collins James P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226538464, ISBN: HB: 9780226538327, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones, 2 line drawings, 6 tables

Scores of wild species and ecosystems around the world face a variety of human-caused threats, from habitat destruction and fragmentation to rapid climate change. But there is hope, and it, too, comes in a most human form: zoos and aquariums. Gatheri...

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All the Boats on the Ocean How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing

Finley Carmel

ISBN: HB: 9780226443379, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Most current fishing practices are neither economically nor biologically sustainable. Every year, the world spends $80 billion buying fish that cost $105 billion to catch, even as heavy fishing places growing pressure on stocks that are already strug...

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