Shrimp: The Endless Quest for Pink Gold
- By Jack Rudloe, Anne Rudloe
- Published Dec 11, 2009 by FT Press. Part of the FT Press Science series.
- Copyright 2010
- Dimensions: 5-3/8 X 8-1/4
- Pages: 272
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-700972-0
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-700972-5
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Product Author Bios
Jack and Anne Rudloe operate Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratories, Inc.–a unique environmental education center and public aquarium that supplies marine organisms to schools and research laboratories–in Panacea, Florida. (See their web site at www.gulfspecimen.org.) Jack has spent years working on shrimp boats, participated in the International Indian Ocean Expedition and has made collecting trips for the New York Aquarium and the National Cancer Institute. He has written six highly acclaimed and widely reviewed nonfiction books on the sea. His novel Potluck, a story of shrimping and smuggling, has been called a Florida classic.
Anne Rudloe has published two nonfiction books, Priceless Florida and Butterflies on a Sea Wind–a book on Zen mediation–and has also written many scientific research papers. Together, Anne and her husband have published articles in National Geographic, Smithsonian, Sports Illustrated, Natural History, Audubon, and other magazines. They have been featured in several major television documentaries on PBS and Jack has been interviewed on The Today Show, Good Morning America, Fox Network, and National Public Radio. In addition to writing columns for the Tallahassee Democrat, Anne is also an adjunct professor at Florida State University.
The story of shrimp is as delicious as the creatures themselves. Renowned nature writers Jack and Anne Rudloe tell that story with passion, revealing a hidden history that has spanned millennia. You’ll discover the human stories and heritage behind centuries of shrimping, around the world; meet the most remarkable of the world’s 4,000 species of shrimp; come aboard ragged old shrimp boats, and spy on high-tech shrimp tanks; discover why shrimp may be a restaurant’s best friend, and a land speculator’s worst nightmare. You’ll meet people who love to eat shrimp, the fishermen who roam the seas catching them, and the aquaculturists who raise them in ponds, selling them more cheaply than fishermen ever could. You’ll gain powerful new insights into a conflict that’s as old as humanity itself: the conflict between hunter-gatherers and farmers. You’ll discover the vastness and diversity of both nature and humanity, as you travel from abandoned Mayan tombs to the California Gold Rush; from the heart of Cajun country to the English Channel. You will learn things you never imagined about microbiology and real estate, about economics and ecosystems. And, as you meet the people around the world who’ve caught, sold, cooked, and loved shrimp, you might just meet your own ancestors. Read this book, and you’ll never feel the same way about shrimp again: you’ll love it even more.
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I really like shrimp. Scratch that. No, I love shrimp. Boiled shrimp. Fried shrimp. Shrimp slathered with Sriracha and barbecued on skewers. Shrimp Scampi. Shrimp in lobster sauce. Shrimp cocktail.Yeah, I'm starting to sound a little like Forrest Gump's friend Bubba from the movie, but the point is that I went into Jack Rudloe's book SHRIMP: THE ENDLESS QUEST FOR PINK GOLD thinking "how could I NOT like it?" Since I'm at this point, the 38th reviewer of the book, there are plenty of descriptions of the book's content out there, so I'm not going to bore you by sharing details that others have already stated over and over, but what I'll say is this: The story would have made a terrific feature-length article in DISCOVER magazine. Personally, the subject matter wasn't enough to hold my attention for the full 272 pages. There are page-turners where you keep reading because you are drinking in and savoring every last word. And then there are page turners... Read more
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No, Jonathan Sabin, it is not just you.I love shrimp as well, although I stopped eating them decades back when I first learned of the enormous loss of marine life --- especially sea turtles of many endangered species --- every time a drag net draws shrimp from the sea floor. This book confirmed all that --- and more. Still, the book is not well done. It leaps wildly from topic to topic, with no apparent rhyme or reason. Discussions of various shrimp types meander into prose on shrimp taste, and cooking methods, and then wander off into shrimp farms versus wild fisheries --- all in the space of a few pages. And then the book rocks through the same choppy sea of topics again pages, and chapters later. It's enough to make a reader seasick. Apart from the serious organizational difficulties, the book is incredibly dull. Worst of all, however, these two marine scientists appear totally indifferent to the need to save wildlife currently destroyed... Read more
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A quick read, providing an overview of U.S. shrimp harvesting., By
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SHRIMP by J. Rudloe and A. Rudloe is a 250 page book, containing a dozen or so black and white photos and a few diagrams. There is a ten page index. The authors, who are seasoned professionals in the field of marine biology, stick to what they know, namely facts that they learned from their own teaching and research, facts that can be learned by talking to people who work on shrimp boats, and facts from reading local newspapers, e.g., relating to government regulations, ecology, and whatnot.The entire book is set forth in a chatty manner, depicting specific facts, in the manner of a diary. For example, we read, "The federal agencies had checked so many boats over the years that the shrimpers had almost grown used to being boarded by men in blue with their weapons . . . as Coast Guard Cutter #41319 zoomed away, Paul said, We try to accomodate them, and let them finish their tow, but sometimes . . . we ask them to lift their nets to we can make an inspection . . . we have... Read more |
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Shrimp: The Endless Quest for Pink Gold
Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Chapter 1: Going Shrimping 1
Chapter 2: About Shrimp 15
Chapter 3: Glory Days 27
Chapter 4: Shrimp in the Grass 49
Chapter 5: Microscopic Monsters 73
Chapter 6: The Shrimp Run 93
Chapter 7: Rock Shrimp and Spotted Prawns 121
Chapter 8: Turtles, TEDs, and Troubles 139
Chapter 9: Wetlands and Real Estate 175
Chapter 10: In Search of the Perfect Prawn 205
Chapter 11: The Miracles of Chitin 229
Acknowledgments 241
About the Authors 242
Index 243
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