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The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat
Clover, Charles
Book
2006
Decades and even centuries of habitat destruction, pollution, and overfishing have transformed and degraded the oceans.
The Humble Tuna
Romulous, Aetius
Article
2009
The humble tuna, "the chicken of the sea", is an unfortunate metaphor for all that is dysfunctional about our contemporary, western, capitalist world. The story of the Tuna is the story of our triumph...
Lament for an Ocean: The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery: A True Crime Story
Harris, Michael
Book
1998
Harris's account of why and how the northern cod was taken to the brink of extinction in little more than thirty years.
The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail
Bolster, W. Jeffrey
Book
2012
Reveals the long history of warnings against overfishing and that the sea is not an 'infinite resource'.
The Unnatural History of the Sea
Roberts, Callum
Book
2011
A history of the commercial fishery and an update on its precarious and untenable siituation. The age old delusion that the sea is an inexhaustible resource has resulted in a fishing arms race that co...

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Senegal's fishing community will act on foreign fleets if government doesn't
Senegal's fisherman blame foreign trawlers for taking their catch
Vidal, John
2012
Annual catches by local fishermen in Senegal are down seventy-five percent from catches ten years ago, resulting in hunger and economic instability. Community leaders in Senegal are warning developed ...