The Catch : How Fishing Companies Reinvented Slavery And Plunder The Ocean

Author: Michael Field

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Price : 40.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781927249024
Publisher : Awa Press
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Weight (g) : 0.476
Publication date : November 2013
Dimensions : 215 x 145 mm
Produced in : New Zealand
RRP : 40.0
Availability date : August 2014
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Author : Michael Field
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Dewey classification : 333.9561370993
Reading Level : Very Good
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Pages : 240
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On November 9, 2008, near Kiribati in the Pacific, a Korean ship came alongside Tai Ching 21. The Taiwan-flagged fishing boat was eerily silent. Three life rafts were missing, and all 29 of the Taiwanese officers and Chinese, Indonesian and Filipino crew. A quest to discover the men's identities led journalist Michael Field into a dark world of foreign-flagged vessels fishing the waters of New Zealand, other Pacific nations, and the Southern Ocean. He uncovered brutality, misery and death - and impending ecological disaster: the destruction of the last great southern schools of fish. With researchers from University of Auckland, he forced the New Zealand government to take action - but with huge money at stake the plunder and appalling working conditions continue. And more and more boats are now risking lives and maritime disaster heading south to catch toothfish, most destined for New York restaurants and Las Vegas casino hotels.

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