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The Big Idea: Saving the World’s Most Important Fish

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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 Billion-Dollar Fish, says the stock could be in danger of collapsing—and it could take its ecosystem down with it.

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What is your big idea?

If you talk with a fisheries scientist about harvest management, it usually ends with them drawing a curve and then a line.

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