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# Overfishing: What Everyone Needs to Know®

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## Customer Reviews

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    Defining a Problem...
  

*by H***E on Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2012*

Ray Hilborn's commonsensical 2012 book "Overfishing" is a necessary and carefully reasoned corrective to the apocalyptic rhetoric that sometimes accompanies environmentalist debates about the status and future of fishing.  Hilborn, an experienced authority on fishing resource managemente and conservation, uses a highly readable question-and-answer format to define terms and provide context to the complex challenge of maintaining fish stocks and fisheries around the world.In sixteen concise chapters and just one hundred forty pages, Hilborn addresses such topics as the different types of overfishing and why the definitions matter, some historical background, and the proven ways that fisheries can be better managed.  In the process, he goes behind the headlines to look at feasible solutions to overfishing that must vary by geography, climate, species and human governance.  He notes the current shortfalls and challenges in gathering accurate data on fish populations.  He also addresses the additional challenge of illegal fishing and the impact of recreational fishing.  His concluding chapters offer some key takeaways on the future of managed fisheries.  "Overfishing" is highly recommeded to those interested in fisheries management.

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    Solid introduction to the problems facing fisheries
  

*by D***M on Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2021*

Very good at explaining the basic concepts. The part on fishing quotas the clearest description of how they work and what the issues are that I've seen.It does not go deep into issues, not does it intend to. The perspective is pro-commercial fishing but is aware of the trade-offs that have to be made.I think he is still too optimistic about our ability to successfully manage fisheries. Scientific management and the concept of 'maximum sustainable yield" has a track record of failure going back to the 50s. Today's scientists think they now have fishery management figured out, but that is small comfort.

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    Terribly misleading
  

*by D***D on Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2013*

This book discusses fishing in regards to the "maximum sustainable yield". This means the maximum yield that can be sustained, given today's fish populations. It nearly entirely disregards the catastrophic population reductions that have occurred over the past few centuries. Today's populations are as little as less than one percent of the populations that existed 500 years ago. Many creatures are extinct or severely endangered. "Overfishing, What everyone needs to know" seems to me to be a blatant attempt to convince people everything is okay, when almost nothing actually is.For a more accurate overview of the situation, I recommend these books:
  
The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America







  
  
    
  
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World







  
  
    
  
The Unnatural History of the Sea







  
  
    
  
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food







  
  
    
  
The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat







  
  
    
  
The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell







  
  
    In addition to the inaccurate assessment of the state of the world's fisheries, much of this book has such poor grammar that it is almost nonsensical. It makes me wonder whether the author used nonsense to deliberately obfuscate the issues he's trying to describe.Overall, I found this book insulting to my intelligence and the good work of researchers around the world.

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