Let Them Eat Shrimp

In Let Them Eat Shrimp, Kennedy Warne takes readers into the muddy battle zone that is the mangrove forest. A tangle of snaking roots and twisted trunks, mangroves are often dismissed as foul wastelands. In fact, they are supermarkets of the sea, providing shellfish, crabs, honey, timber, and charcoal to coastal communities from Florida to South America to New Zealand. Generations have built their lives around mangroves and consider these swamps sacred.

To shrimp farmers and land developers, mangroves simply represent a good investment. The tidal land on which they stand often has no title, so with a nod and wink from a compliant official, it can be turned from a public resource to a private possession. The forests are bulldozed, their traditional users dispossessed.\

The true price of shrimp farming and other coastal development has gone largely unheralded in the U.S. media. A longtime journalist, Warne now captures the insatiability of these industries and the magic of the mangroves. His vivid account will make every reader pause before ordering the shrimp.

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Kennedy Warne is author of Roads Less Travelled and founding editor of New Zealand Geographic. His articles have ap­peared in National Geographic, Smithsonian, GEO, and other publications.

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Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1 Tigers in the Aisles

Chapter 2 Paradise Lost

Chapter 3 Pink Gold and a Blue Revolution

Chapter 4 The Old Man and the Mud Crab

Chapter 5 The Cockle Gatherers of Tambillo

Chapter 6 A Just Fight

Chapter 7 Bimini Twist

Chapter 8 Candy and the Magic Forest

Chapter 9 The Carbon Sleuth

Chapter 10 Paradise Regained

Chapter 11 The Road to Manzanar

Chapter 12 Under the Mango Tree

Chapter 13 A City and Its Mangroves

Chapter 14 A Mangrove's Worth

Author's Note

Further Reading

Index.