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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Norwegian Spring-Spawning Herring & Northeast Arctic Cod: 100 Years of Research and Management by Odd Nakken Book News Annotation They are two of the largest and most important fish stocks in the north and the Atlantic. They are also among the few fish stocks in the world which have been systematically studied and managed for more than a century. This collection of reports... (read more) List Price $101.50 Your price: $41.50 New - Hardcover
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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg Publisher Comments "A necessary book for anyone truly interested in what we take from the sea to eat, and how, and why." -Sam Sifton, The New York Times Book Review. Writer and life-long fisherman Paul Greenberg takes us on a journey, examining the four fish that dominate... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Herring: A History of the Silver Darlings by Mike Smylie Publisher Comments The unusual history of the herring and those whose lives have revolved around getting it to the tables of the masses The story of herring is entwined in the history of commercial fishing. For more than two millennia, herring have been... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Totem Salmon: Life Lessons from Another Species by Freeman House Publisher Comments Part lyrical natural history, part social and philosophical manifesto, Totem Salmon tells the story of a determined band of locals who've worked for over two decades to save one of the last purely native species of salmon in California. The book-call it... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Shellfish Mariculture in Drakes Estero, Point Reyes National Seashore, California by National Research Council Book News Annotation From the National Research Council's Committee on Best Practices for Shellfish Mariculture and the Effects of Commercial Activities in Drakes Estero, Point Reyes National Seashore, California, this report clarifies the scientific issues involved in... (read more) List Price $39.25 Your price: $22.78 New - Trade Paper
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Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish by G Bruce Knecht Publisher Comments This modern pirate yarn has all the makings of a great true adventure tale and is also an exploration of the ways our culinary tastes have all manner of unintended consequences for the world around us. Hooked is a story about the poaching of the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Totem salmon :life lessons from another species by Freeman House Publisher Comments Part lyrical true-life adventure, part social and philosophical manifesto, TOTEM SALMON tells of a watershed community that worked for two decades to save one of the last purely native stocks of salmon in California.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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Using Market Mechanisms to Manage Fisheries: Smoothing the Path by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Publisher Comments This study is to help demystify the concept of market-like instruments and to help policy makers make better use of market-like instruments in fisheries management.... (read more) List Price $68.00 Your price: $60.35 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Lament for an Ocean: The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery: A True Crime Story by Michael Harris Synopsis For almost five hundred years, the northern cod survived the best fishing efforts of several nations. Then in the 1980s the fish began to disappear. What was to blame? Michael Harris's account of why and how the northern cod was taken to the brink of... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nights of Ice: True Stories of Disaster and Survival on Alaska's High Seas by Spike Walker Publisher Comments Spike Walker has spent more than a decade fishing in the subzero hell of Alaska's coastal waters. This collection--coming on the heels of his classic memoir Working on the Edge--is a testament to the courage of those who brave nature's wrath each fishing... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Working on the Edge: Surviving in the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's HighSeas by Spike Walker Publisher Comments No profession pits man against nature more brutally than king crab fishing in the frigid, unpredictable waters of the Bering Sea. The yearly death toll is staggering (forty-two men in 1988 alone); the conditions are beyond most imaginations (90-mph... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg Staff Pick In the vein of The Omnivore's Dilemma, Four Fish looks at the current state of tuna, bass, salmon, and cod. Fished, farmed, modified, and championed, these four make up the bulk of our fish consumption. New York Times magazine writer Greenberg explores... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments The bestselling author of Cod, Salt, and The Big Oyster has enthralled readers with his incisive blend of culinary, cultural, and social history. Now, in his most colorful, personal, and important book to date, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Shifting Baselines: The Past and the Future of Ocean Fisheries by Jeremy Jackson Publisher Comments Shifting Baselines explores the real-world implications of a groundbreaking idea: we must understand the oceans of the past to protect the oceans of the future. In 1995, acclaimed marine biologist Daniel Pauly coined the term "shifting baselines" to... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Trade Paper
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Nutrient Requirements of Fish and Shrimp. by Committee On The Nutrient Requirements Of Fish And Shrimp Book News Annotation This report supersedes the Academy's previous one, released in 1993, by incorporating the considerable published literature on the nutrition and feeding of fish and shrimp since then. One of the committee's primary findings was that the continued... (read more) List Price $195.00 Your price: $130.65 New - Hardcover
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Sharing the Ocean: Stories of Science, Politics, and Ownership from America's Oldest Industry by Michael. Photography By Rebecca Hale Crocker Synopsis Most popular and scholarly investigations of the New England groundfish management crisis have not produced very complex stories. Environmentalists and scientists are typically portrayed as the protagonists in a relentless struggle against antagonistic... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $10.00 New - Trade Paper
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Trolling on the Edge: The Story of a Noyo Fisherman by Jeanne Duncan Publisher Comments What does it feel like to fish for salmon and albacore on a small, wooden boat, braving rough seas and narrow rocky harbors? Why would anyone choose this uncertain, dangerous way to make a living? A young Mendocine Coast fisherman describes the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Harpoon: Into the Heart of Whaling by Andrew Darby Publisher Comments From one-hundred-fifty-ton barnacled Blues to the sleek, embattled Minke, whales have been hunted worldwide to near extinction. Despite efforts to halt the killing, the future of these majestic mammals-known as “mind in the water”-is again in... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fishers and Scientists in Modern Turkey; the Management of Natural Resources, Knowledge, and Identity on the Eastern Black Sea Coast. by Stale Knudsen Publisher Comments Through the ethnography and history of fish production, seafood consumption, state modernizing policies and marine science, this book analyzes the role of local knowledge in the management of marine resources on the Eastern Black Sea coast of Turkey... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price: $53.60 New - Hardcover
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