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Kurlansky, Mark

World Without Fish

184 pp. | Workman | April, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7611-5607-9 $16.95

(3) YA Illustrated by Frank Stockton. The decline of fish populations, due to overfishing, pollution, and global warming, is a major environmental concern. Kurlansky digs deeply and engagingly into the history and science of the issue and provides important recommendations for sustainable fishing (the scientific terminology is very occasionally imprecise). Each chapter ends with a comic that imagines the impact of fish extinctions over a human's lifetime. Websites. Ind.

Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford