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  • Kings of Their Own Ocean

  • Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas
  • Written by: Karen Pinchin
  • Narrated by: Karen Pinchin
  • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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Kings of Their Own Ocean

Written by: Karen Pinchin
Narrated by: Karen Pinchin
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Publisher's Summary

The marvelous tale of one fish, the fisherman who first caught her, and how our insatiable appetite for bluefin tuna turned a cottage industry into a massive global dilemma.

In 2004, an enigmatic charter captain named Al Anderson caught and tagged one Atlantic bluefin tuna off New England's coast. Fourteen years later that same fish—dubbed Amelia for her ocean-spanning journeys—was caught again, this time in a Mediterranean fish trap.

Over his fishing career, Al marked more than sixty thousand fish with plastic tags, an obsession that made him nearly as many enemies as it did friends. His quest landed him in the crossfire of an ongoing fight between a booming bluefin tuna industry and desperate conservation efforts, a conflict that is once again heating up as overfishing and climate change threaten the fish's fate.

Kings of Their Own Ocean is an urgent investigation that combines science, business, crime, and environmental justice. Through Karen Pinchin's exclusive interviews and access, interdisciplinary approach, and mesmerizing storytelling, listeners join her on boats and docks as she visits tuna hot spots and scientists from Portugal to Japan, New Jersey to Nova Scotia, and glimpse, as Pinchin does, rays of dazzling hope for the future of our oceans.

©2023 Karen Pinchin (P)2023 Knopf Canada

What the critics say

“Karen Pinchin’s Kings of Their Own Ocean gives us a new look at the beauty and the importance of an ancient fish. . . .The book also asks where we should go from here.” —The New Yorker

“Pinchin writes acutely about the codependence between fisheries science and politics. . . . It makes for good storytelling, as well as a point of entry into Ms. Pinchin’s deft portraits.” —Wall Street Journal

“Comprehensive . . . exhaustive and engaging.” —Boston Globe

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A great well-paced narrative

Don’t usually go for non fiction but the narrative and story was very human and compelling!

The narration by the author is smooth and clear, and a bit on the slower side which I find useful for non-fiction. <3

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