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Cod
A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
by Mark Kurlansky
A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, and it is the only reason they could. What did the Vikings eat in icy Greenland and on the five expeditions to America recorded... (more)
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The Hungry Ocean
A Swordboat Captain's Journey
by Linda Greenlaw
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER--NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK! Known to millions of readers of The Perfect Storm as the captain of the Hannah Boden, sister ship to the Andrea Gail, Linda Greenlaw is also known as one of the best sea captains on the East Coast. Here she offers an adventure-soaked tale of her own, complete with danger, humor, and characters so colorful they seem to have been ripped from the pages... (more)
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The Unnatural History of the Sea
by Callum Roberts
Humanity can make short work of the oceans’ creatures. In 1741, hungry explorers discovered herds of Steller’s sea cow in the Bering Strait, and in less than thirty years, the amiable beast had been harpooned into extinction. It’s a classic story, but a key fact is often omitted. Bering Island was the last redoubt of a species that had been decimated by hunting and habitat loss years before the explorers set sail.... (more)
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World Without Fish
by Frank Richard Stockton, Mark Kurlansky
Mark Kurlansky, beloved author of the award-winning bestseller Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World , offers a riveting new book for kids about what’s happening to fish, the oceans, and our environment, and what, armed with knowledge, kids can do about it. Written by a master storyteller, World Without Fish connects all the dots—biology, economics, evolution, politics, climate, history,... (more)
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Salmon Without Rivers: A History Of The Pacific Salmon Crisis
by Jim Lichatowich
"Fundamentally, the salmon's decline has been the consequence of a vision based on flawed assumptions and unchallenged myths.... We assumed we could control the biological productivity of salmon and 'improve' upon natural processes that we didn't even try to understand. We assumed we could have salmon without rivers." -from the introductio. From a mountain top where an eagle carries a salmon carcass to feed its... (more)
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Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine (Third Edition)
by Andrew Frank Bigelow
Fifteen years in the making, this updated edition raises the high standard of Bigelow and Schroeder's 1953 reference by drawing from a much larger base of information. Thirty-eight experts in fisheries biology and ichthyology clearly distill the enormous amount of knowledge gained during the past fifty years, including distribution figures from thirty years of annual trawl surveys; food habits accounts from... (more)
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The Most Important Fish in the Sea
by H. Bruce Franklin
In this brilliant portrait of the oceans’ unlikely hero, H. Bruce Franklin shows how menhaden have shaped America’s national—and natural—history, and why reckless overfishing now threatens their place in both. Since Native Americans began using menhaden as fertilizer, this amazing fish has greased the wheels of U.S. agriculture and industry. By the mid-1870s, menhaden had replaced whales as a principal source of... (more)
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The Organic Machine
The Remaking of the Columbia River
by Richard White
The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. In this pioneering study, White explores the relationship between the natural history of the Columbia River and the human history of the Pacific Northwest for both whites and Native Americans. He concentrates on what brings humans and the river together: not only the physical space of... (more)
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Mountain in the Clouds: A Search for the Wild Salmon
by Bruce Brown
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Rights to Nature: Ecological, Economic, Cultural, and Political Principles of Institutions for the Environment
Property rights are a tool humans use in regulating their use of natural resources. Understanding how rights to resources are assigned and how they are controlled is critical to designing and implementing effective strategies for environmental management and conservation. Rights to Nature is a nontechnical, interdisciplinary introduction to the systems of rights, rules, and responsibilities that guide and control... (more)
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The Diversity of Fishes
by Gene S. Helfman
Fishes, as the largest group of living vertebrates, offer almost unlimited opportunities for the study of evolutionary adaptations to environmental and biotic selection pressures. The book covers basic fish anatomy, physiology and phylogeny, but the major theme of the book is evolution. For example, What has been the effect of evolutionary pressures on the form and function of fishes? Pitched at the undergraduate... (more)
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Stock Identification Methods: Applications in Fishery Science
Stock Identification Methods is a comprehensive review of the various disciplines used to study the population structure of fishery resources. It represents the experience and perspectives of worldwide experts on each method, assembled through a working group of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. The book is organized to foster multidisciplinary analyses and interdisciplinary conclusions... (more)
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The Fisherman's Problem
Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980
by Arthur F. McEvoy
The living resources of California's rivers and coastal waters are among the most varied and productive in the world. They also offer a laboratory example of the mismanagement and waste that have attended the settlement and development of the North American continent. The Fisherman's Problem is a study of the interaction among resource ecology, economic enterprise, and law in the history of the California fishing... (more)
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Computers in Fisheries Research
This is the second edition of a book that reviews current and future computer trends in fisheries science applications. The first edition was published 10 years ago. Individuals have been quick to realize the potential of computers in fisheries and scientists continue to take advantage of the rapidly advancing tools and technology. This book provides a valuable sampling of contemporary applications and in some... (more)
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The Perfect Storm
A True Story of Men Against the Sea
by Sebastian Junger
October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--a tempest that may happen only once in a century--a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth have ever witnessed. Few, except the six-man crew of the "Andrea Gail", a commercial... (more)
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The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat
by Charles Clover
Picking up where Cod left off, an "invaluable" ( Financial Times ) look at the global crisis of overfishing. Gourmands and health-conscious consumers alike have fallen for fish; last year per capita consumption in the United States hit an all-time high. Packed with nutrients and naturally low in fat, fish is the last animal we can still eat in good conscience. Or can we? In this vivid, eye-opening book—first... (more)
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In the Heart of the Sea
The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick
The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather,... (more)
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The Lobster Gangs of Maine
by James M. Acheson
An anthropologist describes the working world of Maine lobstermen, focusing on the intricate personal network that sustains them.
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The Behavior And Ecology Of Pacific Salmon And Trout
by Thomas P. Quinn
Few subjects have generated as much emotional dialogue around conflicting scientific and policy agendas as the protection and management of Pacific salmon resources. In this major new work, esteemed fisheries expert Thomas Quinn distils from the vast scientific literature the essential information on the behaviour and ecology of Pacific salmon, including steelhead and cutthroat trout. Unlike other books that... (more)
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My Sulu-Sulawesi Seascape Series
The Gift of a Stranger
by Mitzi Borromeo, Mark Ramael Salvatus III
A young boy lashes out at the marine park ranger who arrested his father for illegal fishing, but the encounter becomes an opportunity to learn valuable lessons. A children’s storybook on marine conservation, written by Mitzi Borromeo with illustrations by Mark Salvatus III. March 2009.

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