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Author Mark Kurlansky pleasantly surprised the world with this engaging best-seller that garnered rave reviews from critics and casual readers alike. His subject for this whimsical biography is the codfish, a species remarkable for its influence on humanity. Cod, Kurlansky argues, has driven economic, political, cultural and military thinking for centuries in the lands surrounding the Atlantic Ocean. Nations like England and Germany have waged wars...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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xiv, 270 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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English
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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.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2010
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320 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill., map ; 25 cm
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English
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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...
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English
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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...
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
©2012
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3 videodiscs (450 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In America's oldest seaport, Gloucester, Mass., there's a special breed of fishermen. They depend on Bluefin tuna for their livelihood in one of the most highly regulated fisheries in the world. But many experts think Bluefin tuna populations are at critical levels. So as the world debates how to save this species, these fishermen depend on them to make their living, one Bluefin at a time.
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Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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xiii, 256 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Although humans have long depended on oceans ecosystems, only recently has human influence on these resources dramatically increased, transforming and undermining marine environments throughout the world. Marine ecosystems are in a crisis that is global in scope, rapid in pace, and colossal in scale. In The Tragedy of the Commodity, Stefano B. Longo, Rebecca Clausen, and Brett Clark explore the role human influence plays in this crisis, highlighting...
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
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English
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The Andrea Gail is a sword fishing boat out of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Billy Tyne is her captain, down-on-his-luck from a recent losing streak, looking to bring back one big score so he and his crew will have the money to stay ashore during the coming winter. So out they go, and they hit it big, hauling in what the crew estimates is a quarter-million-dollars worth of fish. Unfortunately, they haven't paid attention to the weather forecasts or the...
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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.
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New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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xx, 281 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
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English
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Built around a proven 120' greenhouse system operable by one person, the book distills vast experience and complete step-by-step guidance for starting and running a cold-water aquaponics business. Coverage includes a primer on cold-water aquaponics; pros and cons of different systems; complete design and construction of a deep water culture system; recommended and optional equipment and tools; system management, standard operating procedures, and...
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Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
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xii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"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...
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