The fish market Inside the big-money battle for the ocean and your dinner plate

Lee Van der Voo

Book - 2016

Recounts the stories of the people and places behind sustainable seafood in the United States, explaining the methods that investors, equity firms, and seafood landlords have used to leverage the sustainable seafood movement.

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Published
New York : St. Martin's Press 2016.
Language
English
Main Author
Lee Van der Voo (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
xiv, 270 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781250079107
  • Introduction
  • 1. Bering Sea: "Monsanto on the Ocean"
  • 2. Gulf Wild: How to Make Money in Seafood Just by Watching TV
  • 3. Kodiak, Alaska: A Big Squeeze, an Ugly Divorce
  • 4. Gulf Wild: Conservationists Reboot Fishing
  • 5. Inside Passage, Alaska: Sharecroppers of the Sea
  • 6. Gulf Wild: Traceable Catch and the Restaurant Menu
  • 7. Port Orford, Oregon; Pacific Ocean: Farmstand Seafood and the Left Behind
  • 8. Gulf Wild: Walmart, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Multimillion-Dollar Idea
  • 9. Kake, Alaska: The New Colonialism
  • 10. Gulf Wild: White-Collar Foodies
  • 11. Southern Ocean, New Zealand: What's the Worst Thing That Could Happen?
  • 12. Gulf Wild: An Industry Retools
  • 13. New Bedford, Massachusetts: Foreign Equity, Domestic Seafood
  • 14. Gulf Wild: Chefs, Fishermen, and Policy Wonks Descend on Capitol Hill
  • 15. Chatham, Massachusetts; Nantucket Sound: History and Its Outlaws
  • 16. Gulf Wild: Tagged
  • 17. North Atlantic: A Rare Sight, and a Remedy
  • Timeline of Catch-Share Programs
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Sources
  • Index
Review by Booklist Review

When, in the early 2000s, the world's oceans were dangerously close to being overfished, the Environmental Defense Fund, backed by conservative funders like the Walton family and the Koch brothers, created catch shares, giving fishermen private ownership of territories, with the hope that this would incentivize sustainability. Surveying today's fishing communities from Sitka, Alaska, to Madeira Bay, Florida, to Nantucket, Massachusetts, van der Voo uncovers the complex, far-from-feel-good impact that catch shares have had on the fishing industry. The narrative follows an array of characters, from bought-out fishermen to investors to members of boat crews. A central figure is a grouper fisherman Jason DeLaCruz, known as King of the Gulf and one of the only fishermen mentioned in the text who has survived the transition to catch shares and remains a businessman. The other perspectives offered reveal quiet tragedy like the Tlingit people on Kupreanof Island near Kake, Alaska, who have been so marginalized by catch shares that their culture faces extinction. Bold, important, engaging, and intimate, The Fish Market will be especially appealing to readers who connect with environmental problems through personalized accounts.--Grant, Sarah Copyright 2016 Booklist

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