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1. Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results by Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen | |
Hardcover: 112
Pages
(2000-03-08)
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Not what it seems- its better
Inspiring
Hated Seattle, book is OK
Who says work can't be fun?
You cannot create management philosophies based on fiction |
2. Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food by Paul Greenberg | |
Hardcover: 304
Pages
(2010-07-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description When the New York Times reported in June of 2010 that the US Food and Drug Administration was “seriously considering” approving a genetically modified Atlantic salmon for American consumption the cries from environmentalists and food reformers were, predictably, almost audible on the streets.The AquAdvantage® Salmon uses a “genetic on-switch” from a fish called an ocean pout (a very different animal) in combination with a growth gene from a Chinook salmon to achieve double the growth rate of the unmodified creature.The animal’s creator, AquaBounty Technologies of Waltham, MA asserts that the fish will be sterile and grown in out-of-ocean bio-secure containment structures.Nevertheless the emotional worry of genetic contamination of wild fish, the public preoccupation with health risks a modified salmon could pose, and just the overall ick-factor consumers seem to have about GMO food were all on display across the foodie and environmental blogosphere a few days after the Times article ran. But, curiously, perhaps the loudest groan that I heard in response to the AquaBounty successes came from salmon farmers.“What I have been noticing over the years,” Thierry Chopin, an aquaculture researcher based in New Brunswick, Canada wrote me, “is that the aquaculture industry is not jumping to embrace what AquaBounty has been proposing.”For years salmon farmers have been waging a public relations war, trying to gain legitimacy as an industry that could be both profitable and produce more food for a hungry world.When a paper published in the journal Nature in 2000 revealed that it took more than three pounds of wild forage fish to grow a single pound of farmed salmon, the salmon industry responded through selective breeding, increased use of soy and other agricultural products and more efficient feeding practices to lower the wild fish use of farmed salmon to the point where some farms claim to have achieved a fish in-fish out ratio of close to 1 pound of wild fish for 1 pound of farmed salmon.When diseases like infectious Salmon Anemia and parasites like sea lice began to run rampant on salmon farms around the world, some regions, like the Bay of Fundy in Canada, instituted better fallowing and crop rotation practices and appear to have had some success in breaking disease and parasite cycles.But in spite of these improvements, a single mention of transgenic salmon in a major media outlet is enough to spoil whatever gains the industry has made in public perception.Indeed, many lay-people I talk with have the impression that transgenic salmon are already a regular part of the farmed salmon market, this despite the fact that there are still no transgenic salmon sold in the United States or anywhere else that I’ve encountered. Don’t get me wrong.I sincerely do not believe that the salmon industry has solved its environmental problems.But I do think that it suffers an unfair association with the AquaBounty project and that genetic modification distracts from what investment and research really needs to address.The two biggest problems with farming salmon are: So what is the way forward and how do we deal with this transgenic issue?If I were tsar of all salmon farming and could redirect investment money at will, I might take all of those dollars that go into transgenic research and put that money into really confronting the problems that plague the industry.I might look to developing efficient, above ground, re-circulating aquaculture systems.These facilities allow fish to be grown in temperature-controlled environments without any interaction with the wild. Disease transfer and genetic pollution are greatly reduced if not eliminated altogether.Yonathan Zohar a professor and Chair of the Department of Marine Biotechnology at the University of Maryland Baltimore County's has created a test facility right in downtown Baltimore that grows an array of species and even manages to recycle the fish wastes into fuel-grade methane gas that can be used to run pumps or heat water.Though these systems are energy intensive the ability to build them in proximity to markets lessens food miles.Furthermore recirculating systems offer precisely controlled growing conditions and can bring fish to market in half the time as open sea cages. I might also try to expand on the work of Thierry Chopin who is piloting a program of Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture or IMTA where mussels, edible seaweeds, and sea cucumbers are grown in conjunction with salmon in a complex polyculture.Rather than just trying to make an artificially efficient modified salmon, Chopin is trying to make a more efficient system where multiple crops radiate out from a single feed source.Because mussels, sea cucumbers and sea weed can all metabolize the wastes from salmon, they have a potential to neutralize and reuse the effluent that has plagued salmon farms in the past. Another place I might put my salmon dollars would be the development of alternative feeds that are synthesized from soy and algae and might eventually obviate the need for using wild forage fish in salmon feed. Finally, I might consider investing in a different fish altogether.Some critics of the aquaculture industry believe we should do away with the farming of salmonids altogether.But to my eye, there is a very entrenched market for salmon flesh and we might be better served finding a different salmon-like fish that has a smaller footprint. The most hopeful alternative I’ve come across is a fish called the arctic char.The arctic char is from the same taxonomic family as salmon, has pretty good feed conversion ratios, rich flesh, and most interestingly of all, because it frequently finds itself crammed into close quarters when its natural arctic lakes freeze, it has high disease resistance and takes extremely well to high stocking densities—densities that are necessary to make out-of-ocean aquaculture operations profitable.And this is exactly what’s happening with char.Most are grown in re-circulating, above ground tanks in Iceland and Canada. Of course some people will never embrace a farmed solution for fish.There is a camp that feels very strongly that farmed fish are uniformly bad for the world and inferior on the plate.I have to confess that I don’t always share this opinion.Arctic char strike me as a good environmental compromise and to my palate, they’re pretty tasty. --Paul Greenberg> Customer Reviews (32)
Brain Food
Not a fish-eye view
A must read for fish eaters
Great Fish Stories, Could Have Used a More Careful Filleting
Choices |
3. The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister Herbert | |
Hardcover: 32
Pages
(1999-01-27)
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the rainbow fish big book
Dysfunction training for children!
Don't Waste Your Money
terrible message
Interesting Book |
4. One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (Chinese Edition) by Dr. Seuss | |
Hardcover: 60
Pages
(2004-04)
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pieces don't fit back in box!
Bad Design
Good Book-Bought for Charity-Easy Purchase
counting and colors
mini stories |
5. Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Vintage) by Neil Shubin | |||||||||||
Paperback: 256
Pages
(2009-01-06)
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...
Don't listen to the egotistical critics; it's good.
Your Inner Fish
Easy Science Read
Big Picture Book, a must read for everyone |
6. How to Cook Fish by Myrtle Reed | |
Paperback: 166
Pages
(2010-03-07)
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7. The Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen | |
Hardcover: 32
Pages
(2008-03-18)
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Editorial Review Product Description Deep in the water, Can his pals cheer him up? Swim along with the pout-pout fish as he discovers that being glum and spreading “dreary wearies” isn’t really his destiny. Bright ocean colors and playful rhyme come together in this fun fish story that’s sure to turn even the poutiest of frowns upside down. Customer Reviews (53)
An Amazingly Sublime Read For Kids and Parents
Great Book!
Great for little ones!
Kids will love it!
An instant favorite |
8. Too Fat to Fish by Artie Lange, Anthony Bozza | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(2009-06-02)
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Great book ... so sad seeing history repeat itself
ARTIE!!!
Good Book
Funny.
Not your usual Bio. |
9. Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison by T. J. Parsell | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(2007-08-31)
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Informative and Disturbing
Riveting
Seventeen-year-old gay inmate graphically details a year's worth of prison rapes and consensual sex acts.
Expose of Prison Rape
A good book to show the problems men are facing in prison |
10. A Fish Out of Water by Helen Palmer, P. D. Eastman | |
Hardcover: 72
Pages
(1961-08-12)
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Classic Tale of Boy Who Does Not Listen
Daughter loves it
My favorite book ever!
It doesn't flow
fish out of water |
11. Fish is Fish by Leo Lionni | |
Paperback: 32
Pages
(1974-02-12)
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Modern Fable
Writing well done, illustrations rather drab, but children enjoyed
Vendor excellent, book outstanding
A Dramatic and Funny Story about a Fish Out of Water
My favorite children's book |
12. The Pout-Pout Fish in the Big-Big Dark by Deborah Diesen | |||||||||
Hardcover: 32
Pages
(2010-08-17)
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Editorial Review Amazon.com Review Very young children will swim along with Mr. Fish as he journeys deep into the ocean to new and mysterious places. They will discover, as Mr. Fish does, the power of friendship to light the way through the big-big dark. A Look Inside The Pout-Pout Fish in the Big-Big Dark Customer Reviews (7)
Fabulous Book!
Good Read-Aloud - a review of Pout-Pout in the Big-Big Dark
Pout Pout Precious!
More fun with Mr. Fish
Exceptional Illustrations |
13. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(2005-04-26)
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Weakest out of the trilogy
So long, and thanks for all the one-liners
Different but OK
Home at last!
Such a letdown |
14. Fish Without a Doubt: The Cook's Essential Companion by Rick Moonen, Roy Finamore | |
Hardcover: 448
Pages
(2008-04-29)
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The fish Bible
Great and easy food
Wonderful Book
Fabulous cookbook
Great Service |
15. Fish! Tales: Real-Life Stories to Help You Transform Your Workplace and Your Life by Stephen C. Lundin, John Christensen, Harry Paul, Phillip Strand | |
Hardcover: 192
Pages
(2002-04-10)
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Lets go fishing
How is this allowed in the workplace
Fish! Tales: Real -Life Stories...
Great book
Keep the Spirit Fishy! |
16. Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders by Adam Morgan | |
Hardcover: 368
Pages
(2009-02-17)
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Editorial Review Product Description The second edition of the international bestseller, now revised and updated for 2009, just in time for the business challenges ahead. It contains over 25 new interviews and case histories, two completely new chapters, introduces a new typology of 12 different kinds of Challengers, has extensive updates of the main chapters, a range of new exercises, supplies weblinks to view interviews online and offers supplementary downloadable information. Customer Reviews (29)
Eating the big fish
AWESOME!!!!
A great angle on competing in today's marketplace
Some Good Ideas for Small Brands to Eat The Big Brands
Very thoughtful with interesting practical examples |
17. Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch | |
Paperback: 192
Pages
(2007-12-27)
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Pearl After Pearl After Pearl of Wisdom
Si tienes curiosidad en Meditacion...
You won't even catch a small fish with this book
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
Fun and Interesting |
18. Hooray for Fish!: Candlewick Storybook Animations by Lucy Cousins | |
Paperback: 40
Pages
(2010-08-10)
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Fishtabulous!
they sent the wrong book!
My 17mth old baby girl LOVES this book, and the video
Repeat Favorite
Colorful, Conceptual, Counting, Friendly, Funny Fish Rhymes and Illustrations |
19. Fish! For Life: A Remarkable Way to Achieve Your Dreams by Stephen C. Lundin, John Christensen, Harry Paul | |
Hardcover: 144
Pages
(2004-01-07)
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Love the Lundin Series
A hokey little book telling you to be happy & positive...
Hmmm not much to say
Very poor read...
Bring the FISH philosophy to your home |
20. Big Fish (movie tie-in): A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Daniel Wallace | |
Paperback: 208
Pages
(2003-11-04)
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nothing special
True stories that never happened
Ugh, this was a bore to get through!
Excellent
A Novel of Understanding |
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