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Author
Publisher
5m Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Roughly half the seafood we eat comes from farms, and yet many consumers remain hesitant, even resistant to buying farmed fish. Aquaculture is compared with both terrestrial agriculture and capture fisheries and has endured considerable, often unfounded, criticism. Understanding Aquaculture addresses the controversial aspects of aquaculture, answering common questions about the industry and farmed seafood. Are farmed fish safe to eat? Are wild fish...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Examines the role the codfish has played in world history; tells of explorers, merchants, writers, chefs, and fishermen whose lives have been intertwined with the once-abundant fish; provides details about the personality, life, and habits of the cod; and discusses attempts to save it from extinction.
Author
Publisher
Awa Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In November 2008, near Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean, a Korean ship came upon a Taiwanese fishing boat. The Tai Ching 21 was eerily silent. The lifeboat and three rafts were missing, and so were all 29 Taiwanese officers and Chinese, Indonesian, and Filipino crew who had been aboard. A quest to discover the identities of the lost men led New Zealand journalist Michael Field into a dark world of foreign-flagged vessels fishing in the ocean as far...
Author
Series
Lobster chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Graeme is excited about the money that the enormous lobster his father caught could bring in at the auction during the town's annual lobster festival, but even though Graeme likes the idea of using the profit to go to a marine research aquarium with his dad, he begins to wonder if the right thing would be to set the lobster free.
Publisher
5m Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A useable manual for all those interested in an up-to-date introduction to the field. Each of the major cultured species of commercial importance are covered, providing cutting-edge information of practical use to all those involved in shellfish aquaculture."--
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Britain's commercial fishermen, who have sailed out into the ravages of the surrounding seas to bring back the fish to feed their country for centuries. Theirs is one of history's most dangerous jobs, and whole communities have been affected by disasters from which a number of the town's men may not have returned: in 1872 some 129 fishermen were lost in one night alone. Loss of life in the industry was caused by a number of factors:...
Author
Publisher
5m Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The burbot has a unique ecology as the only member of the order of cod-like fishes found in freshwater. It is the second most widely distributed freshwater fish in the Northern Hemisphere, variously threatened, extinct or thriving across different parts of this wide paleoarctic range.Burbot were driven to extinction from Britain most probably in the 1970s, the last recorded specimen caught in 1969 in Cambridgeshire. Particularly over the past decade,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Southern Sea Otters are once again in peril, after having being brought back from the brink of extinction. Threatened investigates the history and potential causes for the otter’s decline, as well as the controversy over how best to protect the otter population. An unprecedented number of sea otter deaths have occurred along the California coast in the last few years. Like crime scene detectives, a team of scientists is anxiously searching for the...
Author
Language
Español
Description
La industria del atún supone una vía real y económicamente viable con la que hacer frente a la crisis general actual. La industria atunera, en la que se interrelacionan dos grandes sectores, el sector extractivo y el transformador, es la principal fuente de ingresos para un número importante de familias, fundamentalmente de la franja costera. Este libro se centra en el sector extractivo. Más concretamente profundiza en el subsector atunero congelador....
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Series
Language
Español
Description
Diversas organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG), la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) y su filial, la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO), así como distintas entidades de los sectores públicos y privado, han planteado la necesidad de buscar alternativas para incrementar el consumo de alimentos con alto valor nutricional y alta digestibilidad, que garanticen un desarrollo y una nutrición equilibrada...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Dr. Alfred Jones, a London fisheries scientist with a satisfactory, if not exciting, life, scoffs when he is asked to participate in a project to create a salmon river in Yemen, but, pressured by the government, he agrees to meet with the fabulously wealth sheik sponsoring the plan and the sheik's lovely young real estate agent, and begins to believe the impossible project might just work.
Author
Language
Español
Description
El propósito del estudio fue elaborar un modelo de innovación y desarrollo tecnológico que incremente la capacidad de gestión para lograr un verdadero desarrollo económico y social de las regiones que ancestralmente han vivido de la pesca. El trabajo está fundamentado en sistemas de información abiertos, lo que les permite a los agentes productivos poseer un conocimiento común y minimizar los riesgos en la toma de decisiones empresariales....
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