Download or read book The Plundered Seas written by Michael Berrill and published by Sierra Club Books for Children. This book was released on 1997 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biologist Michael Berrill explores this simmering crisis with thoroughness and authority. The Plundered Seas opens with a lucid overview of world fisheries and their historical pattern of discovery, exploitation, depletion, and death. Berrill goes on to survey the evolution of international laws governing exclusive fishing zones, the efforts at governmental regulation of the fiercely independent industry, the problems with predicting stock size, and the connected implications for management.