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Books About Marine Ecology



This section describes books about Marine Ecology. These books are about things that affect the sea and the fishing that we all love.

The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America
by H. Bruce Franklin - 2007

This book is about Menhaden, which H.Bruce Franklin claims is the most important fish in the sea. But stocks of Menhaden are declining, due to fleets of ships with spotter planes, capturing billions of these fish each year.

The Unnatural History of the Sea
by Callum Roberts - 2007

This book reveals, among other things, the severe damage being done by fishing trawlers dragging their gear across the sea bottom. They leave behind a "battered landscape", torn up, crushed, and tumbled.