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Lament for an Ocean: The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery, A True Crime Story Hardcover – April 11, 1998

by Michael Harris (Author)

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The northern cod have been almost wiped out. Once the most plentiful fish on the Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland, the cod is now on the brink of extinction, and tens of thousands of people in Atlantic Canada have been left without work by a 1992 moratorium on fishing the stock. Today, the Pacific salmon stocks are in similar trouble – victims of the same blind, stupid greed.

Angry, accusatory fingers have been pointed at various possible culprits for the collapse of the cod – at the Spanish and Portuguese, who for hundreds of years sent ever-bigger fleets to the Grand Banks; at the factory-freezer trawlers, which “vacuumed” the ocean floor for the prized fish; at those inshore fishermen who circumvented the rules governing the fishery; at the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans, which is responsible for managing the fishery; at the harp seal, the cod’s competitor for food, whose numbers have exploded in recent years; even at Nature, for lowering the temperature of the ocean.

In Lament for an Ocean, the award-winning true-crime writer Michael Harris investigates the real causes of the most wanton destruction of a natural resource in North American history since the buffalo were wiped off the face of the prairies. The story he carefully unfolds is the sorry tale of how, despite the repeated and urgent warnings of ocean scientists, the northern cod was ruthlessly exploited.

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“The definitive book on the cod catastrophe. After reading this book, you wouldn’t trust the Department of Fisheries and Oceans with your aquarium.”
–Elizabeth May, Executive Director, Sierra Club of Canada

“[This] isn’t the first book about the collapse of Canada’s East Coast fishery. It won’t be the last. But it is the one you must read to understand how this tragic – and tragically unnecessary – political, social, environmental, and ecological disaster actually happened.”
–Halifax Daily News

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The northern cod have been almost wiped out. Once the most plentiful fish on the Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland, the cod is now on the brink of extinction, and tens of thousands of people in Atlantic Canada have been left without work by a 1992 moratorium on fishing the stock. Today, the Pacific salmon stocks are in similar trouble ? victims of the same blind, stupid greed.

Angry, accusatory fingers have been pointed at various possible culprits for the collapse of the cod ? at the Spanish and Portuguese, who for hundreds of years sent ever-bigger fleets to the Grand Banks; at the factory-freezer trawlers, which ?vacuumed? the ocean floor for the prized fish; at those inshore fishermen who circumvented the rules governing the fishery; at the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans, which is responsible for managing the fishery; at the harp seal, the cod?s competitor for food, whose numbers have exploded in recent years; even at Nature, for lowering the temperature of the ocean.

In Lament for an Ocean, the award-winning true-crime writer Michael Harris investigates the real causes of the most wanton destruction of a natural resource in North American history since the buffalo were wiped off the face of the prairies. The story he carefully unfolds is the sorry tale of how, despite the repeated and urgent warnings of ocean scientists, the northern cod was ruthlessly exploited.

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Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart (April 11, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0771039581
ISBN-13: 978-0771039584
Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 6.8 x 9.2 inches
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Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,284,546 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1673 in Books > Science & Math > Biological Sciences > Animals > Fish & Sharks
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Powerful treatment of fisheries management failure

ByA customeron April 11, 1999

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This book held my interest throughout and carefully depicts the events that led to one of the biggest failures of fisheries management ever. The book shows how failure to protect the biological resource resulted in tremendous economic and social loss in eastern Canada. While the book is somewhat repetitious, it should be of interest to those involved in fisheries management and those who care about protecting the resources of our oceans. The chapter on the Alaska-Canada salmon wars would be disputed by many Alaskan scientists, but the analogy that people forgot about the fish still rings true.

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Well researched. Harris pulls no punches.

ByA customeron October 12, 1998

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As befits a man whose books have caused four royal commissions of inquiry,Michael Harris has chronicled the rise and fall of the Alantic Cod fishery with painstaking,sometimes painful, accuracy. There are no hero's here, only different degrees of guilty politicians, fishermen, and Department of Fisheries officials. The facts are laid out plainly, in order of appearance, and the readers draw their own conclusions with no editorializing or urging from the author. This is an informative book rather than an entertaining one, and will be the defining work on the subject.

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Right on the Nail

ByCassie (MyMyopicView@hotmail.com)on January 20, 1999

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I found Lament of an Ocean to be a wonderfully informative read. I approached the book out of necessity for a project, and was overjoyed by it's clarity, depth of detail and clever presentation on the Fishery crisis in the North Atlantic. I feel Harris's book brought me up to speed (and beyond) on the subject, in a manner that I found to be pleasantly unbiased.

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