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Do You Love Shrimp? Learn All About Them

Name: Do You Love Shrimp? Learn All About Them
Author: Jack Rudloe
ISBN: 9780132143806

by Jack Rudloe, Anne Rudloe

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Overview

This is an excerpt from Shrimp: The Endless Quest for Pink Gold (ISBN: 9780137009725) by Jack and Anne Rudloe. Available in print and digital formats.

Don’t just eat shrimp: discover their amazing story!

People love to eat shrimp, fishermen roam the seas catching them, and farmers grow them in ponds--creating a conflict as old as humanity: hunter-gatherers vs. agriculture. Farmers provide so many cheap shrimp that low prices have nearly destroyed the fishermen. All this human activity swirls around small crustaceans with long whiskers, bulbous eyeballs on stalks, ten legs....

About the Author, Jack Rudloe

Jack Rudloe, a leading nature writer, has spent 40 years studying and protecting marine life. His books include The Sea Brings Forth and The Erotic Ocean. He has led expeditions to capture specimens for the New York Aquarium and collected on behalf of Harvard and the American Museum of Natural History. Anne Rudloe, Ph.D., teaches marine biology at Florida State and has written for National Geographic and Smithsonian. Her books include Butterflies on a Sea Wind and Priceless Florida. Together, the Rudloes run the award-winning Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory.