Tin Can Coast

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"Powerful nature writing . . . a lively story about the consequences of rapacious capitalism." - LOS ANGELES TIMES "You'll never look at a can of tuna the same way again." -MALCOM HARRIS, nationally bestselling author of Palo Alto The hidden story of the California Coast, told through generations of immigrants, surges of industry, and three marine species caught in the dragnet of human history. Look west from San Francisco or Monterey, past the surfers and cargo ships. This is the California Current, 1,900 miles of the most productive waters on earth. It was here that eighteenth-century locals encountered frisbee-sized abalone mollusks, sardine schools the size of buses, and Yellowfin tuna, each the size of a man. But it was not to last. Over the next three centuries, the abalone, sardine, and tuna were swept into the violent undertow of history. Their species became resources. Fishing and