Tuna Wars: Powers Around The Fish We Love To Conserve

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Historically, whenever tuna was hauled ashore, the sounds of battle were never far away. ‘Tuna Wars’ tells the untold story of the power struggles emerging around tuna, from the distant past to your present-day dinner table. In the ancient past, the giant tuna was the first fish to become the basis of a large-scale industry and a ‘global’ trade that created fortunes: Hannibal was able to finance his elephant campaign on Rome thanks to tuna. From the Middle Ages on, a tuna fishing monopoly on Spain’s southern coast allowed the nobility to completely dominate the area and even lead the ‘invincible’ Armada. When the markets for tuna increased exponentially thanks to technical advances, tuna eventually became a billion-dollar business and one of the most-consumed fish species worldwide. But this massive expansion came at a price. An 18th century monk in Madrid was the first to warn that tuna fisheries needed to be run sustainably for the sake of future generations. And the issue of sustainability would go on to become a game-changer in the modern tuna wars, characterized by new alliances and partnerships, hybrid warfare and commercial power struggles. In addition to accompanying you through the history of tuna and sharing insights into fisheries science and approaches to sustainably managing fisheries, Tuna Wars offers practical guidance on choosing sustainably fished tuna. In short, it will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about tuna, but were afraid to ask. Front Matter ....Pages i-xx Introduction (Steven Adolf)....Pages 1-7 Front Matter ....Pages 9-9 The Cave (Steven Adolf)....Pages 11-23 The Purple Folk’s Tuna (Steven Adolf)....Pages 25-37 Three Classic Tuna Wars (Steven Adolf)....Pages 39-43 Thunnus Nostrum (Steven Adolf)....Pages 45-59 Tuna Renaissance (Steven Adolf)....Pages 61-67 The Great Tuna Conqueror (Steven Adolf)....Pages 69-71 The Tuna Dukes (Steven Adolf)....Pages 73-81 Front Matter ....Pages 83-83 The Tuna Saint of Sustainability (Steven Adolf)....Pages 85-92 The Rise of the Can (Steven Adolf)....Pages 93-98 The Tuna Machine (Steven Adolf)....Pages 99-108 Tuna Mapping (Steven Adolf)....Pages 109-113 The Mystery of the North Sea Bluefin Tuna (Steven Adolf)....Pages 115-128 The Almadraba Revisited (Steven Adolf)....Pages 129-139 Tokyo’s Pantry (Steven Adolf)....Pages 141-155 Gurume Bumu (Steven Adolf)....Pages 157-161 Front Matter ....Pages 163-163 The Fall (Steven Adolf)....Pages 165-174 Tuna Requiem (Steven Adolf)....Pages 175-181 The Battle of Science (Steven Adolf)....Pages 183-189 Tuna Wild West (Steven Adolf)....Pages 191-198 Tokyo’s Tuna Fort (Steven Adolf)....Pages 199-207 The Tuna Police (Steven Adolf)....Pages 209-215 Caged Tuna (Steven Adolf)....Pages 217-224 Tuna Welfare (Steven Adolf)....Pages 225-227 Tiger of the Sea (Steven Adolf)....Pages 229-233 Front Matter ....Pages 235-235 Tuna Deus ex Machina (Steven Adolf)....Pages 237-246 Twenty-first Century Tuna Wars (Steven Adolf)....Pages 247-257 Wicked Tuna Problems (Steven Adolf)....Pages 259-264 The Tuna Family (Steven Adolf)....Pages 265-275 Fishing Gears (Steven Adolf)....Pages 277-285 The State of Sustainable Tuna (Steven Adolf)....Pages 287-291 Making Invisible Tuna Visible (Steven Adolf)....Pages 293-303 Eco-claims for Sustainable Tuna (Steven Adolf)....Pages 305-316 Tuna Poachers’ Wars (Steven Adolf)....Pages 317-322 The Pacific Tuna War (Steven Adolf)....Pages 323-327 The Tuna Production Cartel (Steven Adolf)....Pages 329-337 Three Flipper Wars (Steven Adolf)....Pages 339-361 Tuna Conspiracies (Steven Adolf)....Pages 363-366 Pirate Wars (Steven Adolf)....Pages 367-369 The End of the Trail, the Beginning of a New Tuna Era (Steven Adolf)....Pages 371-377 Back Matter ....Pages 379-400