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The Most Important Fish in the Sea : Menhaden and America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, D. C. : Island Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (279 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781597261630
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Most Important Fish in the SeaDDC classification:
  • 597.45
LOC classification:
  • QL638
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Ch. 1: Now You See Them, Now You Don't -- Ch. 2: The New World of Fish -- Ch. 3: Meeting Menhaden: In Our World and Theirs -- Ch. 4: Whales, Menhaden, and Industrialized Fishing -- Ch. 5: The Death of Fish and the Birth of Ecology -- Ch. 6: At War with Menhaden -- Ch. 7: Ecological Catastrophes -- Ch. 8: Collision Courses -- Ch. 9: The Fish of the Future? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: H. Bruce Franklin shows how menhaden have shaped America's national-and natural-history, and why reckless over-fishing now threatens their place in both.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Ch. 1: Now You See Them, Now You Don't -- Ch. 2: The New World of Fish -- Ch. 3: Meeting Menhaden: In Our World and Theirs -- Ch. 4: Whales, Menhaden, and Industrialized Fishing -- Ch. 5: The Death of Fish and the Birth of Ecology -- Ch. 6: At War with Menhaden -- Ch. 7: Ecological Catastrophes -- Ch. 8: Collision Courses -- Ch. 9: The Fish of the Future? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.

H. Bruce Franklin shows how menhaden have shaped America's national-and natural-history, and why reckless over-fishing now threatens their place in both.

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