World Without Fish Author:Mark Kurlansky, Frank Stockton (Illustrator) Announcing the paperback edition of World Without Fish, the uniquely illustrated narrative nonfiction account -- for kids -- of what is happening to the world’s oceans and what they can do about it. — Written by a master storyteller, World Without Fish connects all the dots -- biology, economics, evolution... more », politics, climate, history, culture, food, and nutrition -- in a way that kids can really understand. It describes how the fish we most commonly eat, including tuna, salmon, cod, swordfish -- even anchovies -- could disappear within fifty years, and the domino effect it would have: the oceans teeming with jellyfish and turning pinkish orange from algal blooms, the seabirds disappearing, then reptiles, then mammals. It describes the back-and-forth dynamic of fishermen, who are the original environmentalists, and scientists, who not that long ago considered fish an endless resource. It explains why fish farming is not the answer -- and why sustainable fishing is, and how to help return the oceans to their natural ecological balance.
Interwoven with the book is a twelve-page full-color graphic novel. Each beautifully illustrated chapter opener links to the next to form a larger fictional story that perfectly complements the text.« less