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Bestselling author of Four Fish Paul Greenberg looks to New York oysters, gulf shrimp, and Alaskan salmon to tell the surprising story of why Americans no longer eat from local watersIn 2005, the United States imported twelve billion dollarsâ worth of seafood, nearly double what we had imported ten years earlier. During that same period, our seafood exports rose by a third. In American Catch, our foremost fish expert Paul Greenberg looks to New York oysters, gulf shrimp, and Alaskan salmon to reveal how it came to be that 91 percent of the seafood Americans eat is foreign.As recently as 1928 the average New Yorker ate six hundred local oysters a year. Today, the only edible oysters lie outside city limits. Looking at the trail of environmental desecration, Greenberg comes to view the New York City oyster as a reminder of what is lost when local waters are not valued as a food source. To understand the complications of our current moment, Greenberg visits the Gulf of Mexico. He arrives expecting to learn of the Deepwater Horizon oil spillâs lingering effects on shrimpers, but instead finds that the more immediate threat to business comes from overseas. Asian farmed shrimpâcheap, abundant, and a perfect vehicle for the frying and sauces Americans loveâhave flooded the American market.Finally, Greenberg visits Bristol Bay, Alaska, home to the biggest wild salmon run left in the world. A pristine, productive fishery, Bristol Bay is now at great risk: The proposed Pebble Mine project directly endangers the sockeye salmonâs habitat. In his search to discover why this precious renewable resource isnât better protected, Greenberg discovers a shocking truth: 70 percent of all Alaskan salmon is sent out of the country, much of it to Asia. Sockeye salmon is arguably the most nutritionally dense animal protein on the planet, yet Americans are shipping it abroad.Despite the challenges, hope abounds. In New York, Greenberg connects with an oyster restoration project with a vision for how the bivalves might save the city from rising tides; in the gulf, shrimpers band together to offer local catch direct to consumers. And in Bristol Bay, fishermen, environmentalists, and local Alaskans gather to roadblock Pebble Mine. In American Catch Paul Greenberg proposes there is a way to break the current destructive patterns of consumption and return the American catch back to American consumers.
Hardcover:
9781594204487 | Penguin Pr, June 26, 2014, cover price $26.95
9780395473146, titled "Those Who Can Teach" | Houghton Mifflin School, June 1, 1992, cover price $57.56 | also contains Those Who Can Teach
Paperback:
9780143127437 | Penguin USA, June 9, 2015, cover price $17.00
CD/Spoken Word:
9781480599109 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, June 9, 2015), cover price $14.99
9781480599093 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, June 9, 2015), cover price $9.99
9781480599048 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, June 26, 2014), cover price $29.99
9781480599062 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, June 26, 2014), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Bestselling author of Four Fish Paul Greenberg looks to New York oysters, gulf shrimp, and Alaskan salmon to tell the surprising story of why Americans no longer eat from local watersIn 2005, the United States imported twelve billion dollarsâ worth of seafood, nearly double what we had imported ten years earlier.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781480599079, titled "American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood: Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, June 26, 2014), cover price $59.97
9781480599086 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, June 26, 2014), cover price $39.97
Library:
9781432951023 | Heinemann/Raintree, July 1, 2011, cover price $33.50 | About this edition: This title looks at the business of seafood and how rise in demand has led to massive problems in over fishing and destruction of ecosystems.
Paperback:
9780632064229 | Blackwell Pub, July 16, 2003, cover price $131.95
Miscellaneous:
9780470995464, titled "Eco-labelling in Fisheries: What Is It All About" | Blackwell Pub, April 15, 2008, cover price $114.99
Miscellaneous:
9780470995471, titled "Eco-labelling in Fisheries: What Is It All About" | Onl edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, November 20, 2007), cover price $100.00 | also contains Eco-Labelling in Fisheries: What Is It All About?
Paperback:
9781569735695 | World Resources Inst, September 30, 2005, cover price $25.00
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9780850927597 | Commonwealth Secretarial, January 1, 2004, cover price $17.95
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9780896297258 | Intl Food Policy Research Inst, September 1, 2003, cover price $19.95
Paperback:
9780896296473 | Intl Food Policy Research Inst, June 30, 2003, cover price $10.00
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9789264199866 | Organization for Economic, March 1, 2003, cover price $72.00
With partial reference to India.
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Paperback:
9780195658439 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 7, 2002, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: With partial reference to India.
Product Description: Aimed at all those involved in the commercial operations of fisheries and aquaculture, this textbook provides an introduction to business concepts relevant to managing small and medium enterprises. It has also been designed to equip readers with the managerial tools to set up and run their own businesses...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780852382554 | Blackwell Pub, April 30, 1999, cover price $199.95 | About this edition: Aimed at all those involved in the commercial operations of fisheries and aquaculture, this textbook provides an introduction to business concepts relevant to managing small and medium enterprises.
Paperback:
9781878071446 | Worldwatch Inst, June 1, 1998, cover price $5.00
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