The fish market
Subtitle: inside the big-money battle for the ocean and your dinner plate
By: Lee van der Voo
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781250079107
Subjects: Fisheries; Sustainable fisheries; Privatization
Description: Recounts the stories of the people and places behind sustainable seafood in the United States, explaining the methods that investors, equity firms, and seafood landlords have used to leverage the sustainable seafood movement.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 1. Bering Sea : "Monsanto on the ocean"; title: 2. Gulf Wild : how to make money in seafood just by watching TV; title: 3. Kodiak, Alaska : a big squeeze, an ugly divorce; title: 4. Gulf Wild : conservationists reboot fishing; title: 5. Inside Passage, Alaska : sharecroppers of the sea; title: 6. Gulf Wild : traceable catch and the restaurant menu; title: 7. Port Orford, Oregon; Pacific Ocean : farmstand seafood and the left behind; title: 8. Gulf Wild : Walmart, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the multimillion-dollar idea; title: 9. Kake, Alaska : the new colonialism; title: 10. Gulf Wild : white-collar foodies; title: 11. Southern Ocean, New Zealand : what's the worst thing that could happen?; title: 12. Gulf Wild : an industry retools; title: 13. New Bedford, Massachusetts : foreign equity, domestic seafood; title: 14. Gulf Wild : chefs, fishermen, and policy wonks descend on Capitol Hill; title: 15. Chatham, Massachusetts; Nantucket Sound : history and its outlaws; title: 16. Gulf Wild : tagged; title: 17. North Atlantic : a rare sight, and a remedy; title: Timeline of catch-share programs.