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Tuna wars : powers around the fish we love to conserve / Steven Adolf ; translated by Anna Asbury and Suzanne Heukensfeldt Jansen.

LIBRA QL638.S35 A3613 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Adolf, Steven, author.
Standardized Title:
Reuzentonijn. English
Language:
Dutch
English
Subjects (All):
Tuna fisheries--History.
Tuna fisheries--Environmental aspects.
Tuna--Social aspects--History.
Tuna--Conservation.
Tuna industry--Environmental aspects.
Overfishing.
Fishery management.
Sustainable fisheries.
Tuna industry.
Tuna.
Social aspects.
History.
Tuna fisheries.
Physical Description:
xx, 400 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]
Contents:
1. Introduction: The tuna trail
Part I. The dawn of giant tuna. 2. The cave ; 3. The purple folk's tuna ; 4. Three classic tuna wars ; 5. Thunnus nostrum ; 6. Tuna renaissance ; 7. The great tuna conqueror ; 8. The tuna dukes
Part II. The modern tuna era. 9. The tuna saint of sustainability ; 10. The rise of the can ; 11. The tuna machine ; 12. Tuna mapping ; 13. The mystery of the North Sea bluefin tuna ; 14. The almadraba revisted ; 15. Tokyo's pantry. The tuna shop ; 16. Gurumu bumu
Part III. The final tuna trap. 17. The fall ; 18. Tuna requiem ; 19. The battle of science ; 20. Tuna wild west ; 21. Tokyo's tuna fort ; 22. The tuna police ; 23. Caged tuna ; 24. Tuna welfare ; 25. Tiger of the sea
Part IV. The tuna challenge. 26. Tuna deus ex machina ; 27. Twenty-first century tuna wars ; 28. Wicked tuna problems ; 29. The tuna family ; 30. Fishing gears. Monster boats ; 31. The state of sustainable tuna ; 32. Making invisible tuna visible ; 33. Eco-claims for sustainable tuna ; 34. Tuna poachers' wars ; 36. The Pacific tuna war ; 36. The tuna production cartel ; 37. Three Flipper wars. The conquest of the Pacific. The battle for Pacifical. The battle of Mexico ; 38. Tuna conspiracies ; 39. Pirate wars ; 40. The end of the trail, the beginning of a new tuna era.
Notes:
Reuzentonijn : opkomst en ondergang van een wereldvis. 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-389) and index.
ISBN:
9783030206406
3030206408
OCLC:
1097677531

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