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Kings of Their Own Ocean (Hardcover)
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Kings of Their Own Ocean (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R541
Discovery Miles 5 410
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This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated
fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of
ocean science and the big truth of how our insatiable appetite for
bluefin transformed a cottage industry into a global dilemma. In
2004, an enigmatic charter captain named Al Anderson caught and
marked one Atlantic bluefin tuna off New England’s coast with a
plastic fish tag. Fourteen years later that fish – dubbed Amelia
for her ocean-spanning journeys – died in a Mediterranean fish
trap, sparking Karen Pinchin’s riveting investigation into the
marvels, struggles, and prehistoric legacy of this remarkable
species. Over his fishing career Al marked more than sixty thousand
fish with plastic tags, an obsession that made him nearly as many
enemies as it did friends. His quest landed him in the crossfire of
an ongoing fight between a booming bluefin tuna industry and
desperate conservation efforts, a conflict that is once again
heating up as overfishing and climate change threaten the fish’s
fate. Kings of Their Own Ocean is an urgent investigation that
combines science, business, crime, and environmental justice. As
Pinchin writes, ‘as a global community, we are collectively only
ever a few terrible choices away from wiping out any ocean
species.’ Through her exclusive access and interdisciplinary,
mesmerizing lens, readers will join her on boats and docks as she
visits tuna hot spots and scientists from Portugal to Japan, New
Jersey to Nova Scotia, and glimpse, as the author does, rays of
dazzling hope for the future of our oceans.
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