The Bird Alliance of Oregon Book Club meets in the Bird Alliance of Oregon Interpretive Center on the third Wednesday of every month for a fun and informal discussion.
Pick up your copy of the month’s book in the Nature Store for a 20% discount to members. The book club is open to everyone! To see updates, as well as current and upcoming books, visit our Meetup page.
Interested? Please RSVP to Pat Gorman at gormanp@gmail.com.
World Without Fish, by Mark Kurlansky
Can you imagine a world without fish? It’s not as crazy as it sounds. But if we keep doing things the way we’ve been doing things, fish could become extinct within fifty years. So let’s change the way we do things! World Without Fish is the uniquely illustrated narrative nonfiction account—for kids—of what is happening to the world’s oceans and what they can do about it. Written by a master storyteller, World Without Fish connects all the dots—biology, economics, evolution, politics, climate, history, culture, food, and nutrition—in a way that kids can really understand. It describes how the fish we most commonly eat, including tuna, salmon, cod, swordfish—even anchovies— could disappear within fifty years, and the domino effect it would have: the oceans teeming with jellyfish and turning pinkish orange from algal blooms, the seabirds disappearing, then reptiles, then mammals. It describes the back-and-forth dynamic of fishermen, who are the original environmentalists, and scientists, who not that long ago considered fish an endless resource. It explains why fish farming is not the answer—and why sustainable fishing is, and how to help return the oceans to their natural ecological balance.
