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Book Review: Too Valuable to be Lost: Overfishing in the North Atlantic since 1880 by Alvaro Garrido & David J. Starkey

Book Review: Too Valuable to be Lost: Overfishing in the North Atlantic since 1880 by Alvaro... Book Reviews 505 Alvaro Garrido & David J. Starkey (eds.), Too Valuable to be Lost: Overfishing in the North Atlantic since 1880. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2020. Vi + 198 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 9783110637588; £71 (hbk). The ghost of British scientist and ecologist Michael Graham wafts through the pages of this very fine collection of essays, Too Valuable to be Lost: Overfishing in the North Atlantic since 1880, edited by Alvaro Garrido and David S. Starkey. It is fitting that Graham’s ghost inhabits the pages, since his 1943 book, The Fish Gate, so clearly under- stands how fishing slides into overfishing. ‘Fisheries that are unlimited become unprof- itable’, is Graham’s Great Law of Fishing. The writers of this volume might immortalise the economics of Chris Reed’s law by arguing that ‘[u]nfortunately, commercial fishing has a way of turning normality on its head’ (p. 87). It is almost 80 years since Graham’s incisive analysis and about 140 years since scien- tists and government officials gingerly dipped their toes into trying to manage the infin- itely complex world of both catching and selling fish. These activities that have grown more complex as governments have subsidised the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Maritime History SAGE

Book Review: Too Valuable to be Lost: Overfishing in the North Atlantic since 1880 by Alvaro Garrido & David J. Starkey

Finley, Carmel
International Journal of Maritime History , Volume 34 (3): 2 – Aug 1, 2022
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10.1177/08438714221111745a
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Book Reviews 505 Alvaro Garrido & David J. Starkey (eds.), Too Valuable to be Lost: Overfishing in the North Atlantic since 1880. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2020. Vi + 198 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 9783110637588; £71 (hbk). The ghost of British scientist and ecologist Michael Graham wafts through the pages of this very fine collection of essays, Too Valuable to be Lost: Overfishing in the North Atlantic since 1880, edited by Alvaro Garrido and David S. Starkey. It is fitting that Graham’s ghost inhabits the pages, since his 1943 book, The Fish Gate, so clearly under- stands how fishing slides into overfishing. ‘Fisheries that are unlimited become unprof- itable’, is Graham’s Great Law of Fishing. The writers of this volume might immortalise the economics of Chris Reed’s law by arguing that ‘[u]nfortunately, commercial fishing has a way of turning normality on its head’ (p. 87). It is almost 80 years since Graham’s incisive analysis and about 140 years since scien- tists and government officials gingerly dipped their toes into trying to manage the infin- itely complex world of both catching and selling fish. These activities that have grown more complex as governments have subsidised the

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Published: Aug 1, 2022

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