![]() But they realized quickly, as the trash piled up on the shoreline and the eel grass on the seabed below the farm died, that the new technology was not the answer. ![]() They hoped that aquaculture might take some of the pressure off the dwindling numbers of wild Atlantic salmon. Our view of salmon farms was shaped initially by a small farm that we saw go into the water not far from my parents’ cottage on the South Shore of Nova Scotia in the early 1990s. Sadly, our children have never known that pleasure. For years wild-caught Atlantic salmon was served for special occasions at our house. That said, we do have connections to the topic that not everyone will have. Instead, we’re like our potential readers - simply people doing our best to eat healthy and responsibly. In an interview with The Revelator, Collins and Frantz explain the threats posed to wildlife, what happens to scientists and activists who challenge the industry, and whether land-based salmon rearing is a better alternative.Ĭatherine Collins: Salmon Wars may seem like an odd topic for us because neither one of us is an angler, a marine biologist, or even an environmental activist. Here’s one: Sea lice on farmed salmon can number in the hundreds on a single fish, “so numerous that at some fish-processing plants workers use Shop-Vacs to remove them from incoming salmon.” There are more than a few descriptions in the book that may leave readers with searing mental images. Ĭollins and Frantz, who are also the authors of several other nonfiction books, write about how salmon farming exploded into a $20 billion industry and why that threatens wild salmon, coastal ecosystems and unsuspecting consumers. The result is their newly published book Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish. It led the two investigative journalists to take a deep dive into the salmon-farming industry and its dirty business. For Catherine Collins and her husband Douglas Frantz, that was a photo of a yardstick plunged 32 inches into filth below a salmon farm near Port Mouton, Nova Scotia. The Cruel Prince was a Junior Library Guild selection and has received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and the School Library Journal.Sometimes all it takes is a single photograph to change someone’s mind or inspire them to take action. It was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award, won a New England Independent Booksellers Association Award, and a Phantastik Preis Award for SF/F works published in Germany. The Cruel Prince was a finalist for the Lodestar Award, took second place in the Locus Awards, and won the Inky Award in 2019. But as civil war threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself. In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, discovering her own capacity for bloodshed. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. ![]() Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe. They will live forever.Īnd Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. ![]() They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. ![]()
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