Hooked - Pirates, Poaching and the Perfect Fish [von002]

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Hooked is a story about the poaching of the Patagonian toothfish (known to Americans as "Chilean Sea Bass") and is built around the pursuit of the illegal fishing vessel Viarsa by an Australian patrol boat, Southern Supporter, in one of the longest pursuits in maritime history. Author G. Bruce Knecht chronicles how an obscure fish merchant in California "discovered" and renamed the fish, kicking off a worldwide craze for a fish no one had ever heard of--and everyone had to have. And with demand exploding, pirates were only too happy to satisfy our taste for Chilean Sea Bass.