Praise for Servants of the Fish:

 

 

“Set in the context of a small boat voyage to the heart of the fishing ground, Myron Arms’ Servants of the Fish weaves together a requiem for a depleted natural system and an encounter with a people who are both the perpetrators and the victims of one of the greatest environmental disasters of the modern era. The characters in Arms’ tale are convincing, the prose is powerful, the science is accurate and timely, and the message is one that no concerned citizen of our planet can afford to ignore.”

--Christopher Flaven, President of Worldwatch Institute



“Servants of the Fish accomplishes what non-fiction writing seldom does: it conveys an important story with all the intensity and immediacy of a good novel.”

--Carl Safina, author of Eye of the Albatross and Song for a Blue Ocean


“As one who has lived and worked in the outports that Arms writes about, I can attest to the accuracy of his landscapes and to the sensitivity of his portraits of the fishermen and their families. The places and the people I know in Newfoundland come alive in this heart-rending tale of loss and survival.”

--Dr. Craig Palmer, Anthropologist, University of Colorado, co-author of When the Fish Are Gone



“The combination of sailing, landscapes, people, fishing history, and science is riveting… Arms presents a well rounded picture of the fishery collapse from one geographic center of fishing effort The story is applicable to other places throughout the world and is useful for both the general reader and the fisheries scientist.”

--John Teal, Scientist Emeritus, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution



“Arms’ narrative is not just about Newfoundland fishermen but about all of us. It is a parable, a wonderfully readable journey around an island that has become symbolic of the severe stressing of marine ecosystems everywhere… a wake up call about what we are collectively doing to our planet.”

--Mark Pendergrast, author of Mirror Mirror, Uncommon Grounds and Victims of Memory