Billion-Dollar Fish The Untold Story of Alaska Pollock

Name: Billion-Dollar Fish The Untold Story of Alaska Pollock
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ISBN: 9780226022345

ISBN-10: 022602234X

ISBN-13: 9780226022345

Edition: 2013

Authors: Kevin M. Bailey

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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 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 by more than half, and some scientists are predicting the fishery’s eventual…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.94" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.210



Preface


Prologue: Fishing Lessons



Introduction


White Gold Fever



A Historical Background


From an Inexhaustible Ocean to the Three-Mile Limit



Fishing the High Seas


Japan and the Soviet Union Develop the Alaska Pollock Fishery



Americanization!


The Rush for White Gold and the Developing Fishery



An Empty Donut Hole


The Great Collapse of a North Pacific Pollock Stock



Viking Invasion


Norway's Link to the Pollock Industry



A New Fish on the Block


Advancing Knowledge of Pollock Biology



A New Ocean


Changing Concepts of Ocean Production and Management of Fisheries



Factories of Doom


The Pollock Fishing Industry Clashes with the Environment



All in the Family


Olympic Fishing and Domestic Strife in the Industry



Bridge Over Troubled Water


Tranquility after the American Fisheries Act



Alaska Pollock's Challenging Future



Terminology



Other Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography


Index


Illustrations follow pages 58 and 138.