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in the Sea appears to belong to that lineage which earlier gave us ac-counts of cod [the fish that changed the world (1)], American shad [the founding fish (2)], and Patagonian toothfish, also known as Chilean seabass [the perfect fish (3)]. These fish were all important because of their impacts, pa...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.693.3165 http://www.seaaroundus.org/magazines/2007/Science_TalesOfASmallCrucialFish.pdf |
| Summary: | in the Sea appears to belong to that lineage which earlier gave us ac-counts of cod [the fish that changed the world (1)], American shad [the founding fish (2)], and Patagonian toothfish, also known as Chilean seabass [the perfect fish (3)]. These fish were all important because of their impacts, past or present, on people’s diets. But Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) is really different from cod, shad, and toothfish, because it is a fish that we do not eat and likely never will. Rather, it is eaten by the fishes we like to catch and eat. Thus, the con-flicts about and around this fish are different from the conflicts about others, where differ- |
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