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The Most Important Fish You've Never Heard of

By H. Bruce Franklin, Island Press. Posted February 5, 2008.


Ocean ecosystems are nearing the verge of collapse because of the over fishing of one of the world's most important and little known species.
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H. Bruce Franklin is the John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. He has authored or edited eighteen books, including War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination, M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America, Prison Writing in Twentieth-Century America, and Vietnam and Other American Fantasies.

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