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Shark Finning: Rise, Backlash, and Regulation

How luxury shark fin soup demand drove global shark declines - and the international campaigns that partially reversed it.

17 Sep 2026 ⏱ 10 min read
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The Bluefin Tuna Story: From Cat Food to $3 Million Fish

How a 1960s trash fish became the most valuable single fish on Earth, and what its trajectory says about global fisheries.

06 Aug 2026 ⏱ 9 min read
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The Modern Fisheries Management Story

From open-access chaos to quota systems, MPAs, and ecosystem-based management - the past 50 years of policy evolution.

22 Jul 2026 ⏱ 12 min read
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Medieval Fishing: How Europe Fed Itself

Monasteries, ponds, and river weirs - the medieval fish economy that predated and enabled the age of exploration.

03 Jul 2026 ⏱ 10 min read
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Whaling: The 19th Century Boom and Bust

Nantucket, New Bedford, and the sperm oil economy that powered the industrial revolution before petroleum.

19 Feb 2026 ⏱ 12 min read
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Aquarium Fish Trade: A 150-Year History

From Victorian parlour tanks to global multi-billion-dollar industry - the timeline of the modern hobby.

19 Jan 2026 ⏱ 12 min read
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Colonial Cod Economics

How the salt-cod trade financed colonial Boston, funded triangular trade, and shaped New England identity.

16 Jan 2026 ⏱ 10 min read
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Sardine Canning: Industry That Built California

Cannery Row, Monterey Bay, and the boom-bust cycle that Steinbeck documented as sardine stocks collapsed.

07 Dec 2025 ⏱ 10 min read
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Aquaculture: 4,000 Years of Fish Farming

From ancient China to modern industrial salmon farming - the 4,000-year evolution of raising fish for food.

05 Dec 2025 ⏱ 12 min read