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Alaska pollock is everywhere. If youre eating fish but you dont know what kind it is, its almost certainly pollock. Prized for its generic fish taste, pollock masquerades as crab meat in california rolls and seafood salads, and it feeds millions as fish sticks in school cafeterias and Filet-O-Fish sandwiches at McDonalds. That ubiquity has made pollock the most lucrative fish harvest in Americathe fishery in the United States alone has an annual value of over one billion dollars. But even as the money rolls in, pollock is in trouble in the last few years, the pollock population has declined by more than half, and some scientists are predicting the fisherys eventual collapse.In Billion-Dollar Fish, Kevin M. Bailey combines his years of firsthand pollock research with a remarkable talent for storytelling to offer the first natural history of Alaska pollock.



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Kevin M. Bailey

Kevin M. Bailey was formerly a Senior Scientist at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center of NOAA and is affiliate Full Professor at the University of Washington. He is the founding director of Man & Sea, LLC (www.manandsea.org). He has published over 120 peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters. Kevin wrote Billion-Dollar Fish in 2012 and it was published by the University of Chicago Press in April 2013. He is currently writing a new book tentatively called Steinbeck's Porthole: the Saga of the Western Flyer also to be published by University of Chicago Press. This book is about the environmental history of Pacific coast fisheries. Kevin got his BA degree from University of California, Santa Barbara and PhD from the University of Washington. He spent 35 years studying the biology and ecology of Alaska pollock and Pacific hake, as well as Alaskan flatfishes. This experience led him towards the mission of helping to preserve the unique traditional lifestyle and relationship of man & sea in a sustainable manner. In 2008 he was awarded the Oscar Sette Award for lifetime achievement in marine fisheries by the American Fisheries Society. He has received numerous awards and recognitions from NOAA. His website is www.kevinmbailey.com.



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