The Lobster Trap: The Global Fight for a Seafood on the Brink

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A page-turning examination of how a multi-billion dollar industry creates enormous wealth and endless heartache, at a time when climate change, swings in the market, and greed are impacting fishermen&’s livelihoods in new and dramatic ways.Lobster has been a phenomenal success story, with a commercial fishery that has generated enormous wealth and fuelled appetites for one of the world&’s most recognizable luxury foods. The great lobster boom that began in the 1990s has also led to violent fights over who has the right to catch this valuable seafood, including many Indigenous people in Canada, who until recently have been excluded from this industry. Now overfishing, trade wars, and climate change are threatening the future of this fishery in deeply troubling ways.By 2050, scientists expect that warming ocean waters in the heart of North America&’s lobster fishing region will cut catches by two thirds. In some parts of America, there&’s hardly any lobster left to catch. Unlike previous collapses, there are few other large-scale wild seafood species left that fishing crews can switch to. The economic upheaval for fishermen and seafood companies alike could devastate coastal communities in both Canada and the United States.In this deeply reported, resonant, timely book, Greg Mercer takes readers on a fascinating global journey and inside this precarious moment for the lobster industry, to show the money and heartache, and the danger and violence, tied up in it. Along the way, he explores lobster&’s remarkable history, the gold-rush mentality that surrounds it, and examines the looming crisis for this most precious shellfish.
Copyright:
2025

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
320 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780771006333
Related ISBNs:
9780771006326, 9780771006357, 9780771006364
Publisher:
McClelland & Stewart
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Copyrighted By:
Greg Mercer
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Science, Animals, Cooking, Food and Wine, Business and Finance
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Bookshare Staff
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