Recommended web sites, publications, films

and other sources of marine conservation information 

BOOKS

The Swordfish Hunters  

Thomas Armbruster, MD

     Fishing the open ocean is dangerous and difficult work; in fact, commercial deep sea fishing is considered to be one of the world's deadliest jobs. And the hunt for swordfish is one of the most treacherous deep sea fishing jobs of all.

     For centuries, thousands have lauded the powerful giant swordfish for its pugnacious attitude. Among swordfish admirers are two of America’s greatest writers, Ernest Hemingway and Zane Grey. They knew that as the most aggressive of all big game fish, swordfish, once hooked and enraged, were capable of attacking boats and even aiming for the gaffer. Grey compared the pursuit of the ocean’s most powerful gladiator to “Lassoing mountain lions, hunting the grizzly bear, and stalking the fierce tropical jaguar.” He considered the swordfish “the noblest warrior” of all the fish in the sea.

     In the summer of 1987 Thomas Armbruster, marine biology student, went to sea as a greenhorn swordfish fisherman. The Swordfish Hunters is his highly personal account of that first trip — a vivid retelling, an emotional snapshot of the fear, the fatigue, and the exhilaration of the hunt for swordfish over the deepest canyons of the North Atlantic. 

Forthcoming 

Also recommended:

The World is BLUE - How Our Fate and the Ocean's are One

Sylvia A. Earle, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence

Foreword by Bill McKibben

National Geographic - 2009

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 TUNA: A Love Story 

Richard Ellis

Knopf - July 2008 

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THE LAST FISH TALE: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town

Mark Kurlansky 

Riverhead Books - June 2008

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Rescue Warriors -- Riding with the U.S. Coast Guard, America's Forgotten Armed Service

David Helvarg

 St. Martin's Press - May or June 2009

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The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat

Charles Clover

University of California Press - March 2008

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WEBSITES

National Coalition for Marine Conservation (NCMC)

http://www.savethefish.org

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

http://www.nrdc.org/water/oceans/policy.asp

Shark Research Institute (SRI)

http://www.sharks.org

Center for Ocean Solutions (COS) new

http://www.centerforoceansolutions.org

MarineBio

http://marinebio.org

Oceana

http://www.oceana.org/international-home-nao

Clean Ocean Action (COA)

http://www.cleanoceanaction.org

The Sea Around Us Project

http://www.seaaroundus.org

BlueVoice.org

http://www.bluevoice.org  

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ARTICLES

WHITE SHARK CHRONICLES 

 Thomas Armbruster, MD

Featured in May 2008 Biology Digest

To read the Introduction go to OUR PROJECTS page.

To request a copy: info@sandyhooksealife.org

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FILMS

Oceans

Supported by the Census of MarineLife(CoML) 

opening US April 2010

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A Sea Change - Imagine the World Without Fish

http://www.aseachange.net

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Turtle: The Incredible Journey

Presented by Save Our Seas Foundation

http://saveourseas.com/turtlefilm