Alaska Codfish Chronicle - A History of Alaska's Pacific Cod Fishery (Paperback)

Cod is one of the most widely consumed fish in the world. For many years, the Atlantic cod industry took center stage, but partly thanks to climate change and overfishing, it is more and more likely that the cod on your kitchen table or in your fast food fish fillets came from Alaska's Pacific Cod Fishery. Alaska Codfish Chronicle is the first comprehensive history of this fishery. It looks at the early decades of the fishery's history, a period marked by hardship and danger, as well as the dominance of foreign fishermen. And the modern era, beginning in 1976 when the United States claimed an exclusive economic zone around the Alaska coasts, "Americanizing" the fishery and replacing the foreign fleets that had been ravaging the resources in the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea. Today, the Pacific cod fishery is, in terms of poundage, the second largest fishery in Alaska, and considered among the best-managed fisheries in the world. This history is extremely well documented, does not spare details, and is accessible to general readers. It incorporates nearly a hundred photographs and illustrations and is sprinkled with numerous observations from fishing industry journals and reports, even incorporating poems and recipes, making this an especially thorough and unique account of one of Alaska's most iconic and important industries.

General

Imprint:	University of Alaska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2019
Authors:	James Mackovjack
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	300
ISBN-13:	978-1-60223-389-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Wild animals > General Promotions
LSN:	1-60223-389-6
Barcode:	9781602233898

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