THE END OF THE LINE: HOW OVERFISHING IS CHANGING THE WORLD AND WHAT WE EAT
Book ID/图书代码： 06580010B36016
English Summary/英文概要： Picking up where Cod left off, an "invaluable" (Financial Times) look at the global crisis of overfishing.
Gourmands and health-conscious consumers alike have fallen for fish; last year per capita consumption in the United States hit an all-time high. Packed with nutrients and naturally low in fat, fish is the last animal we can still eat in good conscience.
Or can we?
In this vivid, eye-opening book—first published in the UK to wide acclaim and now extensively revised for an American audience—environmental journalist Charles Clover argues that our passion for fish is unsustainable. Seventy-five percent of the world’s fish stocks are now fully exploited or overfished; the most popular varieties risk extinction within the next few decades.
Clover trawls the globe for answers, from Tokyo’s sumptuous fish market to the heart of New England’s fishing industry. He joins hardy sailors on high-tech boats, interviews top chefs whose menu selections can influence the fate of entire species, and examines the ineffective organizations charged with regulating the world’s fisheries. Along the way he argues that governments as well as consumers can take steps to reverse this disturbing trend before it’s too late. The price of a mouth-watering fillet of Chilean sea bass may seem outrageous, but The End of the Line shows its real cost to the ecosystem is far greater.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： ﹗海洋版「不願面對的真相」
﹗魚在船上死命掙扎，人們卻大口把新鮮生魚片往嘴裡送… 2005年美國每人魚類消費量〈per capita consumption〉創下史上新高。因為，魚不僅營養價值高，而且脂肪量又低，因此讓人類吃得非常安心…
但我們真的可以繼續安心地大口大口吃魚嗎？
Clover此書寫出魚兒悲慘命運，在英國一出版即獲得高度稱讚，並被拍成記錄片，媲美高爾不願面對的真相《the Inconvenient Truth》…(KC)
Awards/获奖情况：﹗已翻譯成日文、德文、義大利文、荷蘭文和法文
﹗並榮獲以下獎項
Guild of Food Writers’ Derek Cooper Award for investigative food writing
安德魯西蒙獎(André Simon prize) for food writing
Zoological Society of London’s BIOSIS award for communicating zoology.
公共電視台將於4月26日《就是今天！》晚間10:00播出紀錄片「魚線的盡頭」。http://web.pts.org.tw/php/html/island/list.php?pbeno=1471
亞馬遜：http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/159558109X/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books
紀錄片網站：http://endoftheline.com/
“The End of the Line紀錄片是根據英國記者查爾斯克勞福同名書籍改拍，由歐美民間組織和基金會贊助，去年才殺青。片中專家學者對人類「過漁」（濫捕）造成海洋生態浩劫，有詳盡的分析及警告。中研院生物多樣性中心研究員邵廣昭取得台灣播映權，並加製中文字幕《http://biodiv.sinica.edu.tw/》，提供機關團體免費索取播放，希望推廣國內海洋保育觀念。”
相關報導：2048無魚可吃？ 邵廣昭敲海洋警鐘http://www.cna.com.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=FirstNews&ID=201004160016
Review
Starred Review. In this devastating book, first published in Great Britain and now revised and updated for North American readers, Clover, environment editor of London’s Daily Telegraph, shows that fishing with modern technology has put us just a hairsbreadth away from destroying entire ocean ecosystems. New England’s fisheries have collapsed, the fish stocks of West Africa’s continental shelf are overexploited, few cod are left in Newfoundland’s Grand Banks, and, according to one study, 90% of the large fish in the ocean in 1950 have disappeared. Clover finds many people to blame, including trawlers with huge nets that destroy everything in their wake, incompetent scientists, dishonest governmental agencies, celebrity chefs with endangered species on their menus, and the general public, which pays no attention to how the fish it eats is obtained. He’s especially critical of the European Union, the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization and countries like Japan and Spain that persist in illegal fishing. Clover’s hard-hitting approach will probably anger some, but his argument that we will soon run out of fish unless we take drastic measures—such as establishing huge no-take zones where fish stocks can recover—is persuasive. (Nov.) ---Publishers Weekly
Lyrical and scientific books about the marine-life crisis exist, including works by Carl Safina and Richard Ellis, but to really grab people’s attention there’s nothing like the dispatches of a good investigative reporter. British environmental journalist Clover covers it all, from destructive high-tech fishing techniques to the regulations meant to protect fish species, the nearly universal practice of hauling in and selling illegal catches, and the snarled politics that hamper ocean conservation efforts. Clover, conversant, cogent, and refreshingly blunt, cites statistics that reveal the loss of 90 percent of the earth’s preindustrial fish population due to overfishing, explains why "the conservation of wild fish is a human health issue as well as an environmental one," and cites the problems with fish farming. He even takes restaurants to task for serving "the marine equivalent of the panda, the rhino, and the great apes," and provides lists of fish to avoid and those you can eat "with a clear conscience." Healthy ocean ecosystems are our birthright, Clover declares, and "the time has come to change the laws of the sea so that they are more like the laws of the land." Donna Seaman---Booklist
Clover has taken on a major issue of our times with an inquiring intelligence. --- Mark Kurlansky, author of Cod
Want to feel less guilty about all the destruction? Read Clover’s sobering book, and adjust diet accordingly. --- Kirkus Reviews starred review
About the Author/作者介绍： Charles Clover 曾三次獲得英國環境與媒體獎《British Environment and Media Awards》年度最佳記者獎；並曾與英國查爾斯王子合寫Highgrove一書。
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