Shell Games

Shell Games
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Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature's Bounty

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ebook

تاریخ انتشار

2010

نویسنده

Craig Welch

شابک

9780061987984
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  • نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی

Publisher's Weekly

January 25, 2010
In this deep-sea true-crime narrative, journalist Welch entertains and horrifies with tales of poachers and the law enforcement officers devoted to chasing them down. Stories range across the wildlife spectrum, from bears killed for their gallbladders (used “to treat cancers, burns, and liver and stomach problems”) to Moonies harvesting baby leopard sharks off California’s Catalina Island for pet shops. The book focuses on fisheries in the Pacific Northwest and features the “oversize, ugly, and still somehow charming” geoduck clam, which resembles nothing more than “a giant penis,” and an equally larger-than-life Native American fisherman and artist, Doug Tobin, “a charmer, a prankster, a benefactor, and a bully.” Tobin, originally enlisted by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife detectives, as an informant to help catch geoduck poachers, ends up stealing millions of dollars worth of geoduck and Dungeness crab, the ecological consequences of which will take decades to evaluate. Welch’s vivid depictions and broad coverage of this global, ecologically disastrous illegal trafficking provide a sympathetic glimpse into the dedication and frustration of wildlife crime fighters.




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