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 by more than half, and some scientists are
predicting the fishery's eventual collapse. In Billion-Dollar Fish,
Kevin M. Bailey combines his years of firsthand pollock research
with a remarkable talent for storytelling to offer the first
natural history of Alaska pollock. Crucial to understanding the
pollock fishery, he shows, is recognizing what aspects of its
natural history make pollock so very desirable to fish, while at
the same time making it resilient, yet highly vulnerable to
overfishing. Bailey delves into the science, politics, and
economics surrounding Alaska pollock in the Bering Sea, detailing
the development of the fishery, the various political machinations
that have led to its current management, and, perhaps most
important, its impending demise. He approaches his subject from
multiple angles, bringing in the perspectives of fishermen,
politicians, environmentalists, and biologists, and drawing on
revealing interviews with players who range from Greenpeace
activists to fishing industry lawyers. Seamlessly weaving the
biology and ecology of pollock with the history and politics of the
fishery, as well as Bailey's own often raucous tales about life at
sea, Billion-Dollar Fish is a book for every person interested in
the troubled relationship between fish and humans, from the depths
of the sea to the dinner plate.
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