In Pursuit of Giants

One Man's Global Search for the Last of the Great Fish

Matt Rigney (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2017
University Press of New England (Verlag)
978-1-5126-0067-4 (ISBN)

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For millennia the great fish-marlin, bluefin tuna, and swordfish - have reigned over the world's oceans and awed human beings. This is a call to arms for the protection of these creatures, as well as a five-year, 75,000-mile global adventure story that takes author on a quest to discover how once-thriving species are now threatened.

For millennia the great fish-marlin, bluefin tuna, and swordfish-have reigned over the world's oceans and awed human beings. Naturalists, photographers, sportfishermen, and writers from Zane Grey to Ernest Hemingway have been inspired by their beauty, power, and sheer size. But like much other marine life today, these fish face perilous reductions in their populations due to destructive and illegal fishing, inept fisheries management practices, and dramatic changes in ocean ecology, including those wrought by climate change. In Pursuit of Giants is a moving elegy and a call to arms for the protection of these creatures, as well as a five-year, 75,000-mile global adventure story that takes author Matt Rigney on a quest to discover how once-thriving species are now threatened. Rigney's pilgrimage to encounter these giants takes him from the sportfishing mecca of Cabo San Lucas, to the Great Barrier Reef, from New Zealand to Nova Scotia, Japan and the Mediterranean, as he joins commercial and sport fishermen, marine biologists, fish-farming pioneers, and ocean activists to investigate the dangers these species face, and the various efforts being made-or not-to protect them.

MATT RIGNEY is a native New Englander and has fished fresh- and saltwater for over forty years. He sailed aboard the Charles W. Morgan, the last remaining American whaleship, on its thirty-eighth voyage. His opinion pieces and articles have appeared in the Boston Globe, Orion, Bisbee's Marlin World, and Huffington Post, where he blogs about commercial fishing, ocean conservation, and fish.

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2017
Reihe/Serie	Seafaring America
Zusatzinfo	1 map, 20 photos
Verlagsort	Hanover
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Angeln / Jagd
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
ISBN-10	1-5126-0067-9 / 1512600679
ISBN-13	978-1-5126-0067-4 / 9781512600674
Zustand	Neuware