Dallas Public Library

World without fish, how could we let this happen?, Mark Kurlansky ; illustrations by Frank Stockton

eng

illustrations

index present

9 and up

non fiction

World without fish

663952466

Mark Kurlansky ; illustrations by Frank Stockton

Accelerated Reader AR, MG, 7.9, 5.0, 168689.

how could we let this happen?

A frightening look at the looming destruction of the oceans. Brief sections in graphic-novel format follow a young girl, Ailat, and her father over a couple of decades as the condition of the ocean grows increasingly dire, eventually an orange, slimy mess mostly occupied by jellyfish and leatherback turtles. At the end, Ailat's young daughter doesn't even know what the word fish means. This is juxtaposed against nonfiction chapters with topics including types of fishing equipment and the damage each causes, a history of the destruction of the cod and its consequences, the international politics of the fishing industry and the effects of pollution and global warming

Being a brief outline of the problem -- Being a short exposition about what could happen and how it would happen -- Being the true story of how humans first began to fish and how fishing became an industry -- Being the sad, cautionary tale of the orange roughy -- Being the myth of nature's bounty and how scientists got it wrong for many years -- Being a concise history of the politics of fish -- Being an examination of why we can't simply stop fishing -- Being a detailed look at four possible solutions and why they alone won't work -- The best solution to overfishing sustainable fishing -- How pollution is killing fish, too -- How global warming is also killing fish -- Time to wake up and smell the fish

pre adolescent