Comments on: Book review – All the Boats on the Ocean: How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing

By: Book review – The Empty Sea: The Future of the Blue Economy | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:51:06 +0000

[…] technical inventions regarding boats, engines, canning, and (later) on-board refrigeration, plus relentless funding by governments. Perissi & Bardi walk the reader through four examples of overexploitation of marine animals: […]

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By: Book review – Future Sea: How to Rescue and Protect the World’s Oceans | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 12:06:25 +0000

[…] that makes each generation accept a progressively more degraded environment as the new normal. How industrial-scale overfishing came about, and how government subsidies are now keeping it afloat. And how many regulatory bodies […]

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By: Book review – The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:20:05 +0000

[…] deals with the fishing industry. In other reviews, I have already dealt with the history of overfishing and its its consequences. Urbina documents the destruction wrought by trawling, by-catch and other […]

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By: Book review – The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 12:40:38 +0000

[…] the fishing industry. In other reviews, I have already dealt with the history of overfishing (see All the Boats on the Ocean: How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing) and its consequences (see The End of the Line: How Over-Fishing is Changing the World and What We […]

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By: Book review – The Deep: The Hidden Wonders of Our Oceans and How We Can Protect Them | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 23 Aug 2019 18:21:48 +0000

[…] wastefulness of by-catches and simply catching more than the market can handle (see my reviews of All the Boats on the Ocean: How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing, Daniel Pauly’s Vanishing Fish: Shifting Baselines and the Future of Global Fisheries, and […]

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By: Book review – Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 31 Jul 2019 11:57:16 +0000

[…] (see my reviews of Vanishing Fish: Shifting Baselines and the Future of Global Fisheries and All the Boats on the Ocean: How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing). Unfortunately, it is not as simple as making the environmentally right thing easier, quicker, or […]

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By: Book review – Vanishing Fish: Shifting Baselines and the Future of Global Fisheries | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:31:40 +0000

[…] complex arose and fishing went into overdrive. As Carmen Finley documented so carefully in All the Boats on the Ocean: How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing, several nations in record-tempo build huge, heavily-subsidised fleets, with modern technologies […]

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By: Book review – The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 11 Jan 2019 13:17:07 +0000

[…] is an industry that has overfished and exhausted fish stock after fish stock (see also my review of All the Boats on the Ocean: How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing), including the menhaden, profiled in the book The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and […]

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By: Book review – Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 21 Nov 2018 09:25:58 +0000

[…] year we lose more and remember less”. I have mentioned this syndrome before in my review of All the Boats on the Ocean: How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing and Spying on Whales: The Past, Present and Future of the World’s Largest Animals, but it […]

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By: Book review – The Curious Life of Krill: A Conservation Story from the Bottom of the World | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 03 Oct 2018 08:24:06 +0000

[…] Now, overfishing is an important topic, but it can make for turgid reading (see my review of All the Boats on the Ocean: How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing). Not so Nicol; he provides a frankly fascinating bunch of chapters on these failed attempts and on […]

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