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Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate
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This wide-ranging study describes the evolution, lifecycle and migration of the salmon, before reviewing the history of its exploitation as a food source. It surveys written accounts from Julius Caesar to Henry David Thoreau, and considers the impact of Arctic exploration and the colonization of North America before examining the environmental effects of salmon farming, over-fishing and climate change, and what can be done to mitigate them.
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"If the past and the present described here indeed portend our common fate, we'll wait until it's too late."
"Kurlansky offers a dauntingly long list of things that need to happen if the salmon is to be saved ..."
"Kurlansky excels in this variegated research, and if you're puzzled by the occasional omission (a 416-page salmon book, and not one mention of lox?), you'll be amply supplied with fun fish facts for your next salmon barbecue."
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