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In this brilliant portrait of the oceans’ unlikely hero, H. Bruce Franklin shows how menhaden have shaped America’s national—and natural—history, and why reckless overfishing now threatens their place in both. Since Native Americans began using menhaden as fertilizer, this amazing fish has greased the wheels of U.S. agriculture and industry. By the mid-1870s, menhaden had replaced whales as a principal source of industrial lubricant, with hundreds of ships and dozens of factories along the eastern seaboard working feverishly to produce fish oil. Since the Civil War, menhaden have provided the largest catch of any American fishery. Today, one company—Omega Protein—has a monopoly on the menhaden “reduction industry.” Every year it sweeps billions of fish from the sea, grinds them up, and turns them into animal feed, fertilizer, and oil used in everything from linoleum to health-food supplements. The massive harvest wouldn’t be such a problem if menhaden were only good for making lipstick and soap. But they are crucial to the diet of bigger fish and they filter the waters of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, playing an essential dual role in marine ecology perhaps unmatched anywhere on the planet. As their numbers have plummeted, fish and birds dependent on them have been decimatedand toxic algae have begun to choke our bays and seas. In Franklin’s vibrant prose, the decline of a once ubiquitous fish becomes an adventure story, an exploration of the U.S. political economy, a groundbreaking history of America’s emerging ecological consciousness, and an inspiring vision of a growing alliance between environmentalists and recreational anglers.

Chapter 1 Now You See Them, Now You Don’t......Page 14 The Fish They Came For......Page 21 The Fish They Found......Page 27 The Fish That’s Different......Page 28 Face to Face......Page 37 Bait......Page 40 The School......Page 45 The World of the Drifters and Swimmers......Page 50 Survivors?......Page 56 Fertilizer: From Indians to Industry......Page 61 How Menhaden Dwarfed the Whales......Page 66 Pursing the Seas......Page 78 Science Wades In......Page 84 Food Fish vs. Factory Fish......Page 97 What Took the Fish Away?......Page 102 Political Conflict and Ecological Consciousness......Page 106 Uncle Sam to the Rescue......Page 120 War!......Page 130 The Ruins of an Industry......Page 141 Extracting the Liver of the Chesapeake......Page 147 The Case of the Sick Stripers......Page 153 The Case of the Murdered Crabs......Page 160 The Case of the Missing Fish: Shad and River Herring......Page 162 The Case of the Dead Shellfish......Page 165 The Birds......Page 167 The Gulf......Page 170 Recreation or Industry......Page 183 Anglers and Enviros, Or, A Marine Yellowstone?......Page 185 Anglers to the Rescue......Page 190 The ASMFC Thinks the Unthinkable......Page 197 On to Cockrell’s Creek......Page 203 Challenges......Page 208 Does Omega Mean the Last?......Page 214 Resurrection?......Page 226 Acknowledgments......Page 234 Notes......Page 236

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