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Billion-dollar Fish
Kevin M. Bailey
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Description for Billion-dollar Fish
Hardcover. Prized for its generic fish taste, pollock masquerades as crab meat in California rolls and seafood salads, and it feeds millions as fish sticks in school cafeterias and Filet-O-Fish sandwiches at McDonald's. This book seamlessly weaves the biology and ecology of Alaska pollock with the history and politics of the fishery. Num Pages: 280 pages, 33 halftones, 7 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; KNAF; PSPM; PSVW1; RNKH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 556.
Alaska pollock is everywhere. If you're eating fish but you don't know what kind it is, it's almost certainly pollock. Prized for its generic fish taste, pollock masquerades as crab meat in California rolls and seafood salads, and it feeds millions as fish sticks in school cafeterias and Filet-O-Fish sandwiches at McDonald's. That ubiquity has made pollock the most lucrative fish harvest in America-the fishery in the United States alone has an annual value of over one billion dollars. But even as the money rolls in, pollock is in trouble: in the last few years, the pollock population has declined ... Read more
Alaska pollock is everywhere. If you're eating fish but you don't know what kind it is, it's almost certainly pollock. Prized for its generic fish taste, pollock masquerades as crab meat in California rolls and seafood salads, and it feeds millions as fish sticks in school cafeterias and Filet-O-Fish sandwiches at McDonald's. That ubiquity has made pollock the most lucrative fish harvest in America-the fishery in the United States alone has an annual value of over one billion dollars. But even as the money rolls in, pollock is in trouble: in the last few years, the pollock population has declined ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226022345
SKU
V9780226022345
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About Kevin M. Bailey
Kevin M. Bailey is a senior scientist at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center and affiliate professor at the University of Washington.
Reviews for Billion-dollar Fish
"This book provides an accessible and entertaining description of decades of hidden financial and scientific battles over a fish that most of us have eaten, unaware of this war." -Tim D. Smith, author of Scaling Fisheries"