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Kevin M. Bailey

Kevin Bailey is a scientist and writer living in Seattle. He is the author of Billion-Dollar Fish: The Untold Story of Alaska Pollock.

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Deep Blue Sea

The Most Important Fish

<p>The Alaska pollock may be the largest remaining source of palatable fish in the world, used in the Filet-O-Fish at McDonald’s and by many other fast-food chains. But Kevin M. Bailey, author of the new book <i><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Billion-Dollar-Fish-Untold-Alaska-Pollock/dp/022602234X/">Billion-Dollar Fish</a></i>, says the stock could be in danger of collapsing—and it could take its ecosystem down with it.</p>

Kevin M. Bailey

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