Billion-Dollar Fish - The Untold Story of Alaska Pollock

Informationen zum Autor Kevin M. Bailey is a senior scientist at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center and affiliate professor at the University of Washington. Klappentext Prized for its generic fish taste! Alaska pollock masquerades as crab meat in California rolls and seafood salads! and it feeds millions as fish sticks in school cafeterias and Filet-O-Fish sandwiches at McDonald's. Bailey combines his years of firsthand pollock research with a remarkable talent for storytelling to offer the first natural history of Alaska pollock. Zusammenfassung Prized for its generic fish taste! pollock masquerades as crab meat in California rolls and seafood salads! and it feeds millions as fish sticks in school cafeterias and Filet-O-Fish sandwiches at McDonald's. This book seamlessly weaves the biology and ecology of Alaska pollock with the history and politics of the fishery.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin M. Bailey, Bailey Kevin M.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2013
• EAN: 9780226022345
• ISBN: 978-0-226-02234-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Alaska, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Marine Biology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Fisheries & Aquaculture, Conservation of wildlife & habitats, Conservation of wildlife and habitats, Marine Biology, Fishes (Ichthyology), Zoology: fishes (ichthyology), Fisheries & Related Industries, Fisheries and related industries