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Billion-Dollar Fish: The Untold Story of Alaska Pollock

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Alaska pollock is far and wide. 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 The us—the fishery in america alone has an annual value of over one billion dollars. But while the money rolls in, pollock is in trouble: in the previous couple of 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. The most important to understanding the pollock fishery, he shows, is recognizing what aspects of its natural history make pollock so very desirable to fish, whilst 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 quite a lot of 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, in addition to Bailey’s own frequently 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.


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