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The most important fish in the sea : menhaden and America / H. Bruce Franklin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Franklin, H. Bruce (Howard Bruce), 1934-2024.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Menhaden--United States--History.
- Menhaden.
- Menhaden fisheries--United States--History.
- Menhaden fisheries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-252) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-59726-194-7
- 1-59726-163-7
- 1-4356-3332-6
- OCLC:
- 614482668
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