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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
DescriptionA history of the fish this has led to wars, stirred revolutions, sustained economies and diets, and helped in the settlement of North America features photographs, drawings, and recipes, as well as the natural history of this much sought afterwards fish." You probably enjoy eating codfish, but reading concerning them? Mark Kurlansky has written a ...
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ManufacturerWalker & Company
Categories Seafood   Aquaculture   Fish & Sharks   Fisheries & Aquaculture   Marine Life   History of Technology   General   Hardcover   Printed Books  
An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World
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Anders Halverson offers an exhaustively researched and grippingly rendered account of the rainbow trout and why it has become the much commonly stocked and controversial freshwater fish in the United States. Discovered in the remote waters of northern California, rainbow trout have been artificially propagated and distributed for extra than ...
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ManufacturerYale University Press
Categories Reptiles & Amphibians   General   Conservation   Marine Biology   Ichthyology   Fish & Sharks   History of Science   Fisheries & Aquaculture   Hardcover   Printed Books  
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
DescriptionBefore New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Now prize-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its much fascinating inhabitants–the oyster, whose influence on the excellent metropolis remains unparalleled.

For centuries New York was famous for ...
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ManufacturerBallantine Books
Categories Seafood   History   General   Mid-Atlantic   New York   Social History   Aquaculture   Fisheries & Aquaculture   Hardcover   Printed Books  
North by Northwestern: A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters
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In the tradition of Sebastian Junger and Linda Greenlaw comes Captain Sig Hansen’s rags-to-riches epic of his immigrant family’s struggle against deadly Alaskan seas, freezing shipwrecks, and dangerously brutal conditions to achieve the American Dream

Sig Hansen has been a star of the Discovery Channel’s Deadliest ...
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ManufacturerThomas Dunne Books
Categories Memoirs   Adventurers & Explorers   General   Aquaculture   Fisheries & Aquaculture   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Time Bandit: Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World's Deadliest Jobs
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The thrilling and amazing adventures of the Hillstrand brothers, maverick fishermen on the Bering Sea and the stars of the Discovery Channel's top-rated series Deadliest Catch.
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ManufacturerTantor Media
Categories Biographies & Memoirs   Memoirs   Adventurers & Explorers   General   Literary Theory   Fisheries & Aquaculture   Books on CD   Unabridged  
Down at the Docks
DescriptionIn the opening pages of Moby Dick, Herman Melville called New Bedford, Massachusetts, “the dearest situate to exist in, in all of New England.” But the old fishing port and manufacturing center—one time one of the richest cities in New England—has withered in the modern economy. Its one time-prosperous fishermen now struggle together with government regulations ...
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ManufacturerAnchor
Categories New England   Cultural   General   Aquaculture   Fisheries & Aquaculture   Paperback   Printed Books  
The Last Fish Tale
Description"A marvelous, compelling tale"(Rocky Mountain News) from the New York Times bestselling author of Salt and Cod.

Gloucester, Massachusetts, America's oldest fishing port, is defined by the culture of commercial fishing. But the threat of over-fishing, combined together with climate modify and pollution, is ...
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Categories General AAS   Hunting & Fishing   Massachusetts   New England   General   Aquaculture   Fisheries & Aquaculture   Paperback   Bargain Books   Printed Books  
Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea
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A true story of catastrophe and survival at sea, Fatal Forecast is a spellbinding moment-by-moment account of seventy-two hours in the lives of eightyoung fishermen, some of whom would never set foot on dry land again.

On the morning of November 21, 1980, two small Massachusetts lobster boats set out for Georges ...

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ManufacturerScribner
Categories General AAS   General   Ships & Shipwrecks   Weather   Aquaculture   Forecasting   Natural Disasters   Fisheries & Aquaculture   Hardcover   Bargain Books   Printed Books  
The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (P.S.)
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In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and an eccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Trevor Corson escorts the reader onto the slippery decks of fishing boats, throughout danger-filled scuba dives, and deep into the churning currents of the Gulf of Maine to study concerning the secret undersea lives of lobsters.

This ...
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ManufacturerHarper Perennial
Categories Maine   General   Reference   Aquaculture   Invertebrates   Fisheries & Aquaculture   Marine Life   Paperback   Printed Books  
The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy
DescriptionFrom the sea to your plate, the first international tour of sushi’s journey in the global marketplace

One generation ago, sushi’s narrow reach ensured this sports fishermen who caught tuna in much of the world sold the meat for pennies as cat food. Today, the fatty cuts of tuna known as toro are among the planet’s ...
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ManufacturerGotham
Categories General AAS   International   Hospitality, Travel & Tourism   General   Seafood   Globalization   Aquaculture   Fisheries & Aquaculture   Hardcover   Bargain Books   Printed Books  
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