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Overfishing: What Everyone Needs to Know® 1st Edition

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Product Details

  • Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
  • Paperback: 168 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (April 6, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0199798141
  • ISBN-13: 978-0199798148
  • Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 0.5 x 5.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #227,525 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsDefining a Problem...
By HMS Warspite TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on July 2, 2012
Format: Paperback
Ray Hilborn's commonsensical 2012 book "Overfishing" is a necessary and carefully reasoned corrective to the apocalyptic rhetoric that sometimes accompanies environmentalist debates about the status and future of fishing. Hilborn, an experienced authority on fishing resource managemente and conservation, uses a highly readable question-and-answer format to define terms and provide context to the complex challenge of maintaining fish stocks and fisheries around the world.

In sixteen concise chapters and just one hundred forty pages, Hilborn addresses such topics as the different types of overfishing and why the definitions matter, some historical background, and the proven ways that fisheries can be better managed. In the process, he goes behind the headlines to look at feasible solutions to overfishing that must vary by geography, climate, species and human governance. He notes the current shortfalls and challenges in gathering accurate data on fish populations. He also addresses the additional challenge of illegal fishing and the impact of recreational fishing. His concluding chapters offer some key takeaways on the future of managed fisheries. "Overfishing" is highly recommeded to those interested in fisheries management.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGood job Ray
By Matt D. on April 2, 2015
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Good book. Doesn't derive it's information from subjectiveness and emotions like organizations GreenPeace & PETA.

Considers fishery related topics logically and realistically.

Easy read, and not very long. Keeps you interested.
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4.0 out of 5 starsExcellent survey. Explains technical terms very well.
By lyndonbrecht TOP 1000 REVIEWER on February 15, 2015
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This is an excellent overview of fisheries issues in a question-and-answer format. It's a fairly fast read, with sundry arcane technical terms explained well.

The book takes a middle ground. Some of the published material on fishing is doom-and-gloom, and some is sunny and optimistic. Here, some fisheries are in trouble and some are sound.

Most interesting to me is the idea of artisanal fisheries, that is, giving fishing rights to locals, who thereby gain sustenance and act to preserve the fishery in question. It seems to work. He also argues that trawling is not always so bad, because it is efficient and we need food. Used well, it is not the environmental calamity some seem to think (such as accounts of trawling in coral).

He also emphasizes that there is a lot we simply do not understand well, such as long term effects of oceanic cycles.
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4.0 out of 5 starsConclusion of my written book review (lengthy) #geographyclass
By Imani on December 6, 2013
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Personally I found this book very interesting and I learned a great deal of important information regarding our oceans, human impacts, and fish. This book makes you rethink your own personal impacts on specie life underwater and personal intake of fish from our oceans. Not only did this book discuss many environmental and human effects on the oceans, but he also emphasized the disturbance in our ocean’s food chain. I would have to say I agree with the majority of the author’s ideas and arguments and again I was able to read this book and understand what exactly I was reading. I like the fact Hilborn did not include a bunch of confusing terminology that wasn’t described, the authors provided well thought out questions and explanations for all of the language they were speaking in regards to Overfishing. I definitely feel that this was done intentionally, as the title states that the content of the book is “what everyone needs to know”. Reflecting back on the various concepts of the book, I feel like Hilborn’s main argument was a representation of a positive feedback loop. The author concentrated on specific effects that essentially have grown to disturb our underwater species, ocean food chain, and ocean water temperatures. The system here being the ocean, and the reoccurring patterns in increased ocean temperature in addition of human impacts by fisheries on the ocean floor serving as the inputs that have affected the future outputs of our ocean (and life beneath its surface).
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4.0 out of 5 starsgood primer on fisheries issues
By Alexis T. Gutierrez on September 24, 2013
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This is a really good primer for anyone interested in or studying fisheries management. It gives a very general introduction to all the issues. The discussion of marine protected areas and protected species is rather limited and could be rounded out. However, it's an easy read and thoughtful overview of all the major issues facing global fisheries
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5.0 out of 5 starsVery informative !
By Susieq59 on May 12, 2016
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I bought this because my ESL student is attending an International Fisheries conference where one of the keynote speakers is Ray Hilborn.
We are studying it together and I find it well written & informative! Very interesting! English is my first language and it's written in a wonderful, informative style. I think ESL persons need at least an intermediate to advanced level of English comprehension to grasp the book in its entirety.
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