BILLION-DOLLAR FISH: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALASKA POLLOCK
Book ID/图书代码： 13560013B62514
English Summary/英文概要： 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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 麥香魚背後的海洋生態 金融 經濟 政治風暴麥香魚的原料 - 阿拉斯加鱈魚
為美國漁業帶來一年數十億的商機 也為自己喚來提早滅絕的命運
妳知道 阿拉斯加鱈魚（黃線狹鱈）是什麼魚嗎？
由於它的好滋味，它常用於海鮮沙拉、炸魚條、加州捲（當成蟹肉替代品），同時也是麥當勞「麥香魚」的主原料，食品業對它的巨大需求也為美國漁業帶來一年數十億的商機！這座全球最賺錢最大的漁場有如淘金熱，吸引全球各地的資金，各種開發案、各家「金融帝國」如野火燎原般迅速成長。然而這一切貪得無饜只換來惡果：阿拉斯加鱈魚的數量逐年劇減，消失的命運迫在眉睫，連帶也拖垮幾家漁業帝國。
本書作者Kevin M. Bailey擔任阿拉斯加漁業科學中心資深科學家，曾獲美國漁業協會優秀海洋生物學家終生成就獎(Oscar Elton Sette Award)以及美國國家海洋暨大氣總署(NOAA)獎項，深入淺出解說保育最前線的第一手資料，分析阿拉斯加鱈魚為何成為人類最想捕撈的魚類，人類又如何將阿拉斯加鱈魚逼入滅絕。
本書從科學、政治、經濟角度分析，詳述白令海域的漁業發展過程，不同的政治策略導致阿拉斯加鱈魚面臨危機。作者還進一步訪談漁夫、政治家、環保人士、生物學家、綠色和平組織成員，以及漁業公司律師的觀點，以自身專業以及多樣化觀點分析人類與海洋生態因慾望而失衡，因自覺而嘗試挽救平衡的努力。
Contents
1. Introduction: White Gold Fever
2. A Historical Background: From an Inexhaustible Ocean to the 3-Mile Limit
3. Fishing the High Seas: Japan and the Soviet Union Develop the Harvest of Pollock in the Bering Sea
4. Americanization! The Rush for White Gold and the Developing Fishery
5. An Empty Donut Hole: The Great Collapse of a North Pacific Stock
6. Viking Invasion: Norway’s Link to the Pollock Industry
7. A New Fish on the Block: Advancing Knowledge of Pollock Biology
8. A New Ocean: Changing concepts of ocean production and management of fisheries
9. Factories of Doom: The Pollock Fishing Industry Clashes with the Environment
10. All in the Family: Olympic Fishing and Domestic Strife in the Industry
11. Bridge over Troubled Water: Tranquility after the American Fisheries Act
12. Tomorrow’s Challenges for Alaska Pollock
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Awards/获奖情况：“With the clear eye of a scientist and firsthand experience out on the high seas, Kevin M. Bailey presents the explosive rise and potential collapse of America’s most valuable fishery. Surprising and disconcerting, beautifully written and thoroughly researched, Kevin M. Bailey’s Billion-Dollar Fish gets to the bottom of how and why we decimate what could continuously provide substantial sustenance and wealth. With compassion and clarity, he points a way out of this difficult and inexcusable mess. All of us who eat fish will want to know this story.”- Deborah Cramer, author of Great Waters and Smithsonian Ocean “Kevin M. Bailey’s Billion-Dollar Fish captures the high-stakes international battles over the business and biology of Alaska pollock fishing, the most valuable food fishery in the world. Bailey’s perspective is as a noncombatant giving scientific advice in a battle for money conducted on the battleground of the sea. Such battles have been and continue to be fought over many other species in all parts of the sea—for example, codfish, whales, tuna, and squid. This book provides an accessible and entertaining description of decades of hidden financial and scientific battles over a fish that most of us have eaten, unaware of this war.” - Tim D. Smith, author of Scaling Fisheries: The Science of Measuring the Effects
“It is remarkable that a book describing one of our nation’s largest fisheries has never been written—until now. Lucky for us, Kevin M. Bailey, a well-respected fisheries scientist who knows the fish and fishery better than anyone, tells the story of the billion-dollar fish that few know by name—Alaska pollock. Bailey creates an anticipation of ‘what happens next’ to the fish, fishermen, environmentalists, politicians, and scientists that makes it hard to put this book down.”- Jeffrey Buckel, North Carolina State University
“Kevin M. Bailey turns his well-honed research and writing skills to explain how science, international economics, and national politics turned the lowly walleye pollock into the billion-dollar fish. This story will inform, entertain, and astonish its readers with the complexities of managing the removal of protein from the sea for human consumption.” - Jeffrey Napp, Fisheries Oceanographer
About the Author/作者介绍： Kevin M. Bailey is a senior scientist at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center and affiliate professor at the University of Washington.
Format:HARDCOVER
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