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Privately printed by Harry Earle [Published Date 1991], Soft cover, 249 pp. Executive Summary by Ritchie S. Taylor. In good+ condition. Blue pictorial paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and light overall scuffing with a bit of the color scuffed off near edges and spine. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. [From Introduction] The Pacific Ocean keeps getting smaller; physically and technologically. The body of water that encompasses almost half the world is in a fine pickle. Physically speaking, the continents continue to move, ever so slowly, into the Pacific. Several billion years into the future, if this continues, the Atlantic will be the larger Ocean. Within this time frame, not too many of us alive would consider this untimely or catastrophic. The timely cause for concern is man’s technology. Sixty million square miles of water, averaging one mile in depth, would appear to almost everyone to be an inexhaustible “source for man to reap’’ for as long and as much as he would need. It is not. This volume will attempt to define the problem that man’s technology has only very recently created.The fishery problems which we will address concern the thresher shark, the swordfish, the yellowfish tuna, the albacore, and the salmon. Nine months ago I wrote 59 fishery experts throughout the Pacific rim. I asked them to comment about their reaction to the high seas drift net fleets of Taiwan, Korea and Japan, also personally arrive at some viable solutions to this indiscriminate method of fishing. Twenty-seven responded. Their opinions and statistics follow. Contents include: Artist conception of thresher shark, albacore, salmon and swordfish by Jeffrey H. Earle; Thresher Shark; Albacore; Salmon; Swordfish; The Law of the Sea; News Reports on High Seas Drift Netting; News Reports; Summary; About the Author; Requiem for the Felucca