The fishmeal revolution : the industrialization of the Humboldt Current ecosystem /

"Off the Pacific coast of South America, nutrients mingle with cool waters rising from the ocean's depths, creating one of the world's most productive marine ecosystems: the Humboldt Current. Its teeming populations of fish became a key ingredient in animal feed, as fishmeal from this...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wintersteen, Kristin A., 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Fish meal industry > Peru > History.
Fish meal industry > Chile > History.
Farine de poisson > Industrie > Pérou > Histoire.
Farine de poisson > Industrie > Chili > Histoire.
HISTORY > Latin America > Central America.
Fish meal industry
Peru Current.
Humboldt, Courant de.
Chile
Pacific Ocean > Peru Current
Peru
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A deep history of the Humboldt Current ecosystem
  • The new industrial ecology of animal farming in the Atlantic and Pacific worlds, 1840-1930
  • Protein from the sea : the "nutrition problem" and the industrialization of fishing in Chile and Peru
  • The golden anchoveta : the making of the world's largest single-species fishery in Chimbote, Peru
  • States of uncertainty : science, policy, and the bio-economics of Peru's 1972 fishmeal collapse
  • The translocal history of industrial fisheries in Iquique and Talcahuano, Chile
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A : glossary of marine species
  • Appendix B :diagram of Humboldt Current trophic web
  • Appendix C : major current systems of Eastern and Central Pacific Ocean
  • Appendix D : world fisheries management zones
  • Appendix E : world fisheries landings and ENSO events, 1950-2014.

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