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Illuminating
the conditions for global governance to
have precipitated the devastating decline
of one of the ocean’s most majestic
creatures
The International Commission for the
Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) is
the world’s foremost organization for
managing and conserving tunas, seabirds,
turtles, and sharks traversing
international waters. Founded by treaty in
1969, ICCAT stewards what has become under
its tenure one of the planet’s most
prominent endangered fish: the Atlantic
bluefin tuna. Called “red gold” by
industry insiders for the exorbitant price
her ruby-colored flesh commands in the
sushi economy, the giant bluefin tuna has
crashed in size and number under ICCAT’s
custodianship.
With regulations to conserve these sea
creatures in place for half a century, why
have so many big bluefin tuna vanished
from the Atlantic? In Red Gold, Jennifer
E. Telesca offers unparalleled access to
ICCAT to show that the institution has
faithfully executed the task assigned it
by international law: to fish as hard as
possible to grow national economies. ICCAT
manages the bluefin not to protect them
but to secure export markets for commodity
empires—and, as a result, has become
complicit in their extermination.
The decades of regulating fish as
commodities have had disastrous
consequences. Amid the mass extinction of
all kinds of life today, Red Gold
reacquaints the reader with the splendors
of the giant bluefin tuna through
vignettes that defy technoscientific and
market rationales. Ultimately, this book
shows, changing the way people value
marine life must come not only from
reforming ICCAT but from transforming the
dominant culture that consents to this
slaughter..
■ در این کتاب چه
میخوانیم:
1. A History
of the Bluefin Tuna Trade: The Emergence
of Commodity Empires
2. A “Stock” Splits: Profiteering through
International Law
3. Saving the Glamour Fish: The Limits of
Environmental Activism
4. Alibis for Extermination: The
Manipulation of Fisheries Science
5. The Libyan Caper: A Rogue Player Wins
the Game
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