Recounts the stories of the people and places behind sustainable seafood in the United States, explaining the methods that investors, equity firms, and seafood landlords have used to leverage the sustainable seafood movement.

In the tradition of Sebastian Junger and Linda Greenlaw comes Captain Sig Hansen's rags-to-riches epic of his immigrant family's struggle against deadly Alaskan seas, freezing shipwrecks, and dangerously brutal conditions to achieve the American Dream Sig Hansen has been a star of the Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch from the pilot to the present. Seen in over 150 countries, the show attracts more than 49 million viewers per season, making it one...

On two remote islands off the coast of Maine, the local lobstermen have fought savagely for generations over the fishing rights to the ocean waters between them. Young Ruth Thomas is born into this feud, a daughter of Fort Niles destined to be at war with the men of Courne Haven. Eighteen years old, smart as a whip, irredeemably unromantic, Ruth returns home from boarding school determined to throw her education overboard and join the “stern...

Merry Folger is more than ready for a romantic vacation with her fiancé Peter when fate--and her police chief father--intervenes. Twenty-one-year-old Jay Santorski never should have drowned in the frigid waters off the Nantucket shore. What was the athlete, Harvard scholar, and part-time scalloper doing out alone in the storm-churned bay?

At her father's insistence--and over Peter's objections--Merry returns to the island to investigate,

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After seventeen years at sea, Linda Greenlaw felt she needed to return to Isle au Haut, a tiny island seven miles from the Maine coast where she would pursue a simpler life; move back in with her parents and become a professional lobsterman and settle down. Things don't go as planned and just when she thinks it couldn't get worse, something happens that makes her reevaluate life, luck, and lobsters.

On an otherwise ordinary day in a small shrimping village off the coast of South Carolina, a boat goes missing. The entire town rallies and mobilizes to find the lost vessel. Upon that vessel, a longtime shrimp boat captain and his wife of thirty years find themselves injured and disoriented. Throughout the course of one day, flashbacks of Bud Morrison, the captain on board, and Carolina, his wife, reveal the happier days of a once-thriving shrimping...

"A gripping, twisting account of a small town set on fire by hatred, xenophobia, and ecological disaster-a story that weaves together corporate malfeasance, a battle over shrinking natural resources, a turning point in the modern white supremacist movement, and one woman's relentless battle for environmental justice. By the late 1970s, the fishermen of the Texas Gulf Coast were struggling. The bays that had sustained generations of shrimpers and crabbers...

Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild. Today, due to rampant overfishing and a biotech revolution, wild and farmed fish are equal parts of a complex marketplace. Four Fish gives us a culinary history of the four fish that dominate our menus - salmon, sea bass, cod, and tuna - and investigates where each stands at this critical moment in time. (Bestseller)...