Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish

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Hooked is a story about the poaching of the Patagonian toothfish (known to Americans as Chilean Sea Bass) and is built around the pursuit of the illegal fishing vessel Viarsa by an Australian patrol boat, Southern Supporter, in one of the longest pursuits in maritime history. Author G. Bruce Knecht chronicles how an obscure fish merchant in California discovered and renamed the fish, kicking off a worldwide craze for a fish no one had ever heard ofand everyone had to have. And with demand exploding, pirates were only too happy to satisfy our taste for Chilean Sea Bass. Knechtwhose previous book The Proving Ground was hailed by Walter Cronkite as a sailing masterpiece . . . a tale more thrilling than fictioncaptivates readers by deftly shifting among the storys nail-biting elements: the perilous chase at sea through frenzied winds, punishing waves, and an obstacle course of icebergs; the high-stakes environmental battle and courtroom drama; and the competitive battle among the worlds restaurants to serve the perfect, flaky, white-fleshed fish. From the worlds most treacherous waters to its most fabulous kitchens, Hooked is at once a thrilling tale and a revelatory popular history that will appeal to a diverse group of readers. Think The Hungry Ocean meets Kitchen Confidential.

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International Fisheries.......2007-07-07

A great book that chronicles the myriad issues that face international fisheries. Want to know what you're really eating and how it got to your plate? Knecht will tell you

thanks.......2007-07-07

It is always a delight to read a thoughtfully written expose of some evil activity that is destroying some part of our enviroment. The more people read books like this, the better chance there is of preventing such disasters in the future. Nicely done and easy to read.

Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish.......2007-07-05

Book was quite a read. A few days reading and you are done. Keeps you enthralled every minute and at the same time provides facts that you may not know about the fishing industry.

Great sea story mixed with culinary history and legal proceedure.......2007-06-27

Really fun book, everyone I have passed it on to also gave it rave reviews. Excitement, suspense and a little culinary history. A good read

pursuing the fishers.......2007-05-25

A verty detailed account of pursuit and the frustrations that the law encompasses while trying to track international pirates. I assumed it would be, track, catch and arrest but their are so many politics involved with the apprehension of the illegal fisherman, whom once you hear their story and don't find yourself so mad at them either as they are trying to make a living. With the dolphin killing, my emotions were triggered but with the Chilean Sea bass , one really has to grasp the environmental concerns for the reasons these pirates must be controlled. Good book.

Antarctic Fish and Fisheries (Studies in Polar Research)

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Antarctic Fish and Fisheries (Studies in Polar Research)
Karl-Hermann Kock
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Antarctic finfish have been exploited for more than two decades and many stocks now appear to be overfished. This is the first detailed account of this fishery, and will help us better understand how to manage it. The book begins by giving a comprehensive description of Antarctic fish biology and ecology, the thorough understanding of which is a prerequisite to sound management of the fishery. Subsequent sections consider the course of finfish exploitation and the present state of exploited fish stocks in the Southern Ocean. The author concludes by proposing more effective management methods for the fish resources of the Southern Ocean in light of the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.

Aspects of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing in the Southern Ocean (Reviews: Methods and Technologies in Fish Biology and Fisheries)

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Aspects of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing in the Southern Ocean (Reviews: Methods and Technologies in Fish Biology and Fisheries)
Rachel J. Baird
Manufacturer: Springer
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Ryby i rybnye resursy Antarktiki
K. V Shust
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The ugly fish tale: In which pirates, chefs, and special agents hunt for the sea's 'white gold'.(Dissostichus mawsoni, Antarctic toothfish): An article from: OnEarth

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The ugly fish tale: In which pirates, chefs, and special agents hunt for the sea's 'white gold'.(Dissostichus mawsoni, Antarctic toothfish): An article from: OnEarth
Barry Estabrook
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This digital document is an article from OnEarth, published by Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. on June 22, 2003. The length of the article is 2117 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The ugly fish tale: In which pirates, chefs, and special agents hunt for the sea's 'white gold'.(Dissostichus mawsoni, Antarctic toothfish)
Author: Barry Estabrook
Publication: OnEarth (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2003
Publisher: Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
Volume: 25 Issue: 2 Page: 23(3)

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Seeding the Southern Ocean with salmon: An ocean range management program

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Seeding the Southern Ocean with salmon: An ocean range management program
Colin E Nash
Manufacturer: International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management
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The state of exploited fish stocks in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean (Mitteilungen aus dem Institut für Seefischerei der Bundesforschungsanstalt für Fischerei)

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The state of exploited fish stocks in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean (Mitteilungen aus dem Institut fuÌˆr Seefischerei der Bundesforschungsanstalt fuÌˆr Fischerei)
K.-H Kock
Manufacturer: Institut fuÌˆr Seefischerei, Bundesforschungsanstalt fuÌˆr Fischerei
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The conformal group is the invariance group of geometry (which is not understood), the largest one. Physical applications are implied, as discussed, including reasons for interactions. The group structure as well as those of related groups are analyzed. An inhomogeneous group is a subgroup of a homogeneous one because of nonlinearities of the realization. Conservation of baryons (protons can't decay) is explained and proven. Reasons for various realizations, so matrix elements, of the Lorentz group given. The clearly relevant mass level formula is compared with experimental values. Questions, implications and possibilities, including for differential equations, are raised.

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Awkward..........2007-06-15

First published in 2001 and now republished, this book is completely different from what you would expect from a "normal" textbook on mathematical physics. It has more text than formulae and the text is more or less a soup of self-citations and filled with personal scientific innuendo. The author, for instance, does not believe in the vacuum being "filled" with virtual particles, notwithstanding the experimental evidence for it, such as the Casimir effect. He calles people who do "believe" it (as if it were religion) "fools". He does not provide alternatives, but merely states his disapproval.

The text does NOT cover quantum field theory (just some (nearly trivial) basics on the Fock space at the end of the book, which can be found in any more advanced text on quantum mechanics), the conformal group is discussed neatly but not completely satisfactorily, and conformal field theory is treated very poorly (if at all!). Ronald Mirman hammers on "physics respecting its geometry", but does not provide much mathematical background for it.

Furthermore, the author is an independent researcher, which is underlined by the fact, that he does not know what belongs to a modern education in physics and what does not. He, for example, writes that the value of group theory is underappriciated in theoretical physics, which is absolutely nonsense: mathematical physics, especially particle physics, is soaked to the bone with the representation theory of Lie algebras (and in fact would not exist fully without it, to be frank).

The first chapter contains the relevance of the conformal group, in which the author does not state its application in statistical physics and string theory (which - in an online article - he thinks is useless and wrong). In this book, he talks about scale invariance of complete systems (and the role of dilations) and the relation between accelerated observers and special conformal transformations, which is interesting but not backed up mathematically much. In the second chapter, the Möbius group is treated on a basic level - the transformation of special curves (intersections of planes and conical surfaces) under the PSL(2,C) group. A bit on the Clifford algebra is given as well, but not much (and it is completely useless in the text apart from mentioning that there are fermions and bosons obeying different algebras). The conformal group, its subgroups and "similar" groups (compact and noncompact versions of so(n,m) and their covers su(n,m)) are given, but this is hardly a plus, since it is either so easy that any undergraduate could do the calculations or it is not relevant. The final chapter is about conformal field theory, but not in the usual sense (see books by e.g. Di Francesco e.a., Ketov, Kaku, Hankel, etc. for that). Mirman tries to explain what fields are and why they are useful, and what conformal transformations might be used for, but does not do much with it. Then, there are two appendices, which are not interesting either (representations of the Lorentz group & what masses of particles "tell" us - sounds more like a crystal ball to me than science!).

Besides, he says that (a large part of) mathematical literature "tries to hide [its] worthlessness under a pile of esoteric, but meaningless, language", which is more a self-description than a specification of mathematics.

The printing inside the book is okay, except that occasionally he inserts a Maple code into the text, which does not help anything and destroys the typesetting. The cover looks much better on the picture of amazon. In reality, it is a scan of the original 2001 cover, which has then been streched for the new one (at least it looks like that has been done) and one can see individual pixels.

The price is okay, although for 15$ you can get much better pieces on mathematics and physics from Dover Publications! Or invest a bit more for QFT by Itzykson & Zuber (Dover) and a CFT book by one of the authors given above.

Applications of the Theory of Groups in Mechanics and Physics (Fundamental Theories of Physics)

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Applications of the Theory of Groups in Mechanics and Physics (Fundamental Theories of Physics)
Petre P. Teodorescu , and Nicolae-A.P. Nicorovici
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ASIN: 1402020465

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The present volume is a new edition of a volume published in 1985, ("Aplicatii ale teoriei grupurilor in mecanica si fízica", Editura Tehnica, Bucharest, Romania). This new edition contains many improvements concerning the presentation, as well as new topics using an enlarged and updated bibliography.
In addition to the large area of domains in physics covered by this volume, we are presenting both discrete and continuous groups, while most of the books about applications of group theory in physics present only one type of groups (i.e., discrete or continuous), and the number of analyzed groups is also relatively small (i.e., point groups of crystallography, or the groups of rotations and translations as examples of continuous groups; some very specialized books study the Lorentz and Poincaré groups of relativity theory).

Conformal Quantum Field Theory in D-Dimensions (Mathematics and Its Applications)

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Conformal Quantum Field Theory in D-Dimensions (Mathematics and Its Applications)
E.S. Fradkin , and Mark Ya. Palchik
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ASIN: 0792341589

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This volume reviews recent developments in conformal quantum field theory in D-dimensions, and focuses on two main aims. Firstly, the promising trend is followed toward constructing an exact solution for a certain class of models. Work on the conformal Ward identities in a D-dimensional space in the late '70s suggests a parallel with the null-vectors which determine the minimal models in the two-dimensional field theory. Recent research has also indicated the possible existence of an infinite parameter algebra analogous to the Virasoro algebra in spaces of higher dimensions D>=3. Each of these models contains parameters similar to the central charge of the two-dimensional theory, due to special fields which occur in the commutator of the components of the energy-momentum tensor. As a first step, a special formalism is suggested which allows finding an exact solution of these models for any space dimension. Then it is shown that in each model closed differential equations can be obtained for higher correlators, as well as the algebraic equations for scale dimensions of fields, and dimensionless parameters similar to the central charge. Secondly, this work aims to give a survey of some special aspects of conformal quantum field theory in D-dimensional space. Included are the survey of conformal methods of approximate calculation of critical indices in a three-dimensional space, an analysis and solution of a renormalised system of Schwinger-Dyson equations, a derivation of partial wave expansions, among other topics. Special attention is given to the development of the apparatus of quantum conform theory of gauge fields. Audience: This book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers whose work involves quantum field theory.

Deformation Theory and Quantum Groups With Applications to Mathematical Physics (Contemporary Mathematics)

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Deformation Theory and Quantum Groups With Applications to Mathematical Physics (Contemporary Mathematics)
Murray Gerstenhaber
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Discrete Integrable Geometry and Physics (Oxford Lecture Series in Mathematics and Its Applications, 16)

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Discrete Integrable Geometry and Physics (Oxford Lecture Series in Mathematics and Its Applications, 16)

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Recent interactions between the fields of geometry, classical and quantum dynamical systems, and visualization of geometric objects such as curves and surfaces have led to the observation that most concepts of surface theory and of the theory of integrable systems have natural discrete analogues. These are characterized by the property that the corresponding difference equations are integrable, and has led in turn to some important applications in areas of condensed matter physics and quantum field theory, amongst others. The book combines the efforts of a distinguished team of authors from various fields in mathematics and physics in an effort to provide an overview of the subject. The mathematical concepts of discrete geometry and discrete integrable systems are firstly presented as fundamental and valuable theories in themselves. In the following part these concepts are put into the context of classical and quantum dynamics.

Group Theory and Its Application to the Quantum Mechanics of Atomic Spectra (Pure and Applied Physics)

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Group Theory and Its Application to the Quantum Mechanics of Atomic Spectra (Pure and Applied Physics)
Eugene P. Wigner
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Group Theory: The Application to Quantum Mechanics (Dover Classics of Science & Mathematics)

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Group Theory: The Application to Quantum Mechanics (Dover Classics of Science & Mathematics)
Paul H. E. Meijer , and Edmond Bauer
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Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students receive an introduction to problem-solving by means of eigenfunction transformation properties with this text, which focuses on eigenvalue problems in which differential equations or boundaries are unaffected by certain rotations or translations. 1965 edition.

Group-Theoretic Methods in Mechanics and Applied Mathematics (Differential and Integral Equations and Their Applications)

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Group-Theoretic Methods in Mechanics and Applied Mathematics (Differential and Integral Equations and Their Applications)
D.M. Klimov , and V. Ph. Zhuravlev
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Group analysis of differential equations has applications to various problems in nonlinear mechanics and physics. For the first time, this book gives the systematic group analysis of main postulates of classical and relativistic mechanics. The consistent presentation of Lie group theory is illustrated by plentiful examples. Symmetries and conservation laws of differential equations are studied. Specific equations and problems of mechanics and physics are considered, and exact solutions are given for the following equations: dynamics of rigid body, heat transfer, wave, hydrodynamics, Thomas-Fermi and more. The author pays particular attention to the application of group analysis to developing asymptotic methods of applied mathematics in problems with small parameter. The methods are used to solve basic equations (Van Der Pol's equation, Duffing equation, etc.) encountered in the theory of nonlinear oscillations. This book is intended for a wide range of scientists, engineers and students in the fields of applied mathematics, mechanics and physics.

Integrability and Nonintegrability in Geometry and Mechanics (Mathematics and its Applications)

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Integrability and Nonintegrability in Geometry and Mechanics (Mathematics and its Applications)
A.T. Fomenko
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Introduction to the Quantum Yang-Baxter Equation and Quantum Groups:An Algebraic Approach (Mathematics and Its Applications)

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Introduction to the Quantum Yang-Baxter Equation and Quantum Groups:An Algebraic Approach (Mathematics and Its Applications)
L.A. Lambe , and D.E. Radford
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The quantum Yang-Baxter equation is an important equation to solve for applications in physics and topology. This book treats the equation in the context of algebraic systems and as a problem for computer algebra. An up-to-date account of the theoretical foundations of solving the equation is given. The book contains new material which is described in the preface. Audience: The book can be used by graduate students and specialists. Over 200 exercises guide the reader from basic principles to research areas.

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