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The end of the line : how overfishing is changing the world and what we eat /

By: Clover, Charles.
Publisher: London : Ebury, 2005Description: 314 p ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0091897815 (pbk.); 9780091897819:; 9780091897819 (pbk.).Subject(s): Fishery resources | Fisheries | Fishes -- ConservationDDC classification: 639.22
Contents:
The price of fish -- Nailing the lie -- Feeding frenzy -- Robbing the poor to feed the rich -- Sea of troubles -- Mighty seaman -- The last frontier -- The inexhaustible sea? -- After the gold rush -- Law and the commons -- The slime trail -- Dining with the big fish -- Death in a can -- Problem of extinction -- Death of the cowboy -- Don't feed the fish -- A rod to beat them with -- McMeals forever -- Burning the midnight oil -- The theft of the sea -- Reclaiming the sea -- Choosing fish: a guide.
Summary: We have reached a pivotal moment with fishing and in Charles Clover's global exploration of the destruction caused by modern technological fishing, we discover that fishermen are trashing whole ecosystems, wrecking economies, impoverishing the lives of people in poor countries through rapacious neo-colonialism and unsustainable forms of trade.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 639.22 CLO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0075557
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First published: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The price of fish -- Nailing the lie -- Feeding frenzy -- Robbing the poor to feed the rich -- Sea of troubles -- Mighty seaman -- The last frontier -- The inexhaustible sea? -- After the gold rush -- Law and the commons -- The slime trail -- Dining with the big fish -- Death in a can -- Problem of extinction -- Death of the cowboy -- Don't feed the fish -- A rod to beat them with -- McMeals forever -- Burning the midnight oil -- The theft of the sea -- Reclaiming the sea -- Choosing fish: a guide.

We have reached a pivotal moment with fishing and in Charles Clover's global exploration of the destruction caused by modern technological fishing, we discover that fishermen are trashing whole ecosystems, wrecking economies, impoverishing the lives of people in poor countries through rapacious neo-colonialism and unsustainable forms of trade.

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