BookSteven Adolf.
Summary: 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.
Contents:
Introduction: The Tuna Trail
Part I. The Dawn of Giant Tuna
Chapter 1. The Cave
Chapter 2. The Purple Folk?s Tuna
Chapter 3. Three Classic Tuna Wars
Chapter 4. Thunnus Nostrum
Chapter 5. Tuna Renaissance
Chapter 6. The Great Tuna Conqueror
Chapter 7. The Tuna Dukes
Chapter 8. The Tuna Saint of Sustainability
Part II. The Modern Tuna Era
Chapter 9. The Rise of the Can
Chapter 10. The Tuna Machine
Chapter 11. Tuna Mapping
Chapter 12. The mystery of the North Sea bluefin Tuna
Chapter 13. The Almadraba Revisted
Chapter 14. Tokyo?s Pantry
Chapter 15. Gurumu Bumu
Chapter 16. The Fall
Part III. The Fina Tuna Trap
Chapter 17. Tuna Requiem
Chapter 18. The Battle of Science
Chapter 19. Tuna Wild West
Chapter 20. Tokyo?s Tuna Fort
Chapter 21. The Tuna Police
Chapter 22. Caged Tuna
Chapter 23. Tuna Welfare
Chapter 24. Tiger of the Sea
Chapter 25. Tuna Deus ex Machina
Part IV. The Tuna Challenge
Chapter 26. Twenty-first Century Tuna Wars
Chapter 27. Wicked Tuna problems
Chapter 28. The Tuna Family
Chapter 29. Fishing Gears
Chapter 30. The State of Sustainable Tuna
Chapter 31. Making Invisible Tuna Visible
Chapter 32. Eco-labels for Sustainable Tuna
Chapter 33. Tuna Poacher?s Wars
Chapter 34. The Pacific Tuna War
Chapter 35. The Tuna Production Cartel
Chapter 36. Three Flipper Wars
Chapter 37. Tuna Conspiracies
Chapter 38. Pirate Wars
Chapter 39. The End of the Trail, the Beginning of a New Tuna Era.