Ocean Bankruptcy: World Fisheries on the Brink of Disaster

by Stephen Sloan

A discussion of the games that nations and organizations play in order to exploit the ocean's migratory fishery resources in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Mediterranean waters. It examines the attitudes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585747947
• ISBN13: 9781585747948
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Most Important Book on Saving our Fisheries and Oceans!

If you are looking on how to improve your fishing methods or where-to-go fishing, Stephen Sloan?s Ocean Bankruptcy is not the book. Steve has taken the pulse of our oceans repeatedly through the years, and let me tell you something: this book is not only for anglers, but for everyone on earth who is concerned about our fisheries, our environment, our oceans, our earth. Every decade a book comes along that alerts us to various problems that face our world.Ocean Bankruptcy is the environmental book for the present decade. Compares with Rachel Carson?s Silent Spring in importance. With the tremendous demand for seafood around the world, huge commercial longline boats are raping our oceans for quick profits. Unless something is done, and done quickly, our oceans may never recover. Sloan is not afraid to duke it out with wealthy individuals, influential friends, powerful lobbies and he even takes on countries themselves. He names names. I?ve never read a more gutsy environmental book; Steve is lucky to be alive! There is mystery, intrigue, deception, tension so the book is a real page turner, but, more importantly, it is absolutely necessary reading if we are to save our oceans. Sloan is one of our best, most versatile anglers today. He has done it all. Fished everywhere. H e could enjoy fishing the world?s best places for the rest of his life; instead he is greatly concerned about the future of the oceans and devotes most of his time, energies and resources to help save our fisheries. CNN, 60 Minutes, Dateline and PBS would do well to interview Sloan regarding Ocean Bankruptcy. Buy this book immediately... if not sooner.

Eye Opening View of World Fisheries

This fast paced book about the destruction of our world fisheries reads like a Clancy novel, the intrigue alone will amaze you. Best of all Sloan actually comes up with easy solutions to these problems. This is a must read whether you like to fish, eat fish, or are concerned about the environment.