Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

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		Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
		Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Whereas just three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild, rampant overfishing combined with an unprecedented bio-tech revolution has brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of a complex and confusing marketplace. We stand at the edge of a cataclysm; there is a distinct possibility that our children's children will never eat a wild fish that has swum freely in the sea. In Four Fish, award-winning writer and lifelong fisherman Paul Greenberg takes us on a culinary journey, exploring the history of the fish that dominate our menus---salmon, sea bass, cod and tuna-and examining where each stands at this critical moment in time. He visits Norwegian mega farms that use genetic techniques once pioneered on sheep to grow millions of pounds of salmon a year. He travels to the ancestral river of the Yupik Eskimos to see the only Fair Trade certified fishing company in the world. He investigates the way PCBs and mercury find their way into seafood; discovers how Mediterranean sea bass went global; Challenges the author of Cod to taste the difference between a farmed and a wild cod; and almost sinks to the bottom of the South Pacific while searching for an alternative to endangered bluefin tuna. Fish, Greenberg reveals, are the last truly wild food - for now. By examining the forces that get fish to our dinner tables, he shows how we can start to heal the oceans and fight for a world where healthy and sustainable seafood is the rule rather than the exception.

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很棒的一本书！让读者了解更多关于海鱼背后的故事～

I loved it, as the 5 stars indicate, but it is a very scary scenario. SALMON, BASS, COD and TUNA...pay attention! The world's fish are not theoretically being depleted and/or erroneously farmed. This has been happening for decades to humanity's loss! This does for fish in what Michael Pollan's book The Botany of Desire did for four plants. The scary thing is that fishing cannot be controlled by the US, as the bigger fish travel across the oceans. Other fish like wild salmon are being depleted, while the faming of Salmon is ruining the environments where it is taking place. Other nations are demanding their "fair share", and this should be condemned. On a personal level, eat what you catch, and throw back what you cannot eat. It is clear we need to pay attention and, using the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Guide to fish, order fish from reputable fish mongers and in restaurants only when they can tell us the origin of the fish, and how it was caught. Here is an important tip: Never eat farmed Salmon, always eat farmed tilapia. Here's another tip, generally, eat line-caught swordfish (yet not long-line), but don't eat a lot of it (mercury). Know what is happening in our food halls and restaurants, thenorder and catch your fish sustainably.

Paul Greenberg does a magnificent job of straddling the outlooks of scientists, fishermen, and consumers in this volume about the future of our major food fish.

Before reading this, I didn't understand what a "farmed salmon" was. I thought I could change the world by only ordering from the green column of my Seafood Watch card. And while I knew there was something concerning going on with tuna, it didn't stop me from ordering the odd roll on business lunches.

Now I've learned that humans, and our love of seafood, need more than education and self-control to keep the ocean's abundance, our native fisheries, from collapsing--as they have and will continue to do so. I just didn't realize how epic it is to close cod fisheries or swordfish to the public.

While it's great for the layman to read this, I fear they will find themselves, like me, wondering, "What can I do?" If you cannot change the world with your buying habits (because there's always a demand, with or without you), and you can only relegate yourself to living off the "friendly" farmed fish of tilapia, tra, barramundi, and kona kampari, while the rest of the world gobbles as fast as they can from the all-you-can-eat (while supplies last) buffet that is the world's ocean, what CAN you do?

This is an awareness raising book that will help you understand one of the most serious issues facing our race. While it doesn't empower the individual to make changes themselves, it does educate so that an individual can vote and press environmental, agricultural, and foreign policies in the right direction.

Send a copy to your representative as "required homework."

Human's view of the ocean so often seems to be directed by an out of sight out of mind mentality. Whether it is dumping pollution or over-harvesting. Greenberg successfully presents the issue of over-fishing on both an individual and global scale. Greenberg presents a fascinating history on the fishing industries of the four most popular food fish in the Western hemisphere, culminating most importantly on their precipitous decline and ecological impact. He approaches the subject as an individual fisherman and consumer, while also stressing the imperative for world governments to regulate the oceans.

Along the way, he provides some hope by describing some fish species that do lend themselves to industrial scale mono-culture.

In the end, he lays out principles for creating sustainable and responsible fisheries as well as the precepts for the type of global cooperation that would be required to prevent humans from eating these species into extinction.

Greenberg says that individual consumer choices are not enough to sway the nets of commercial fisherman. He is also loathe to the question, "what kind of fish should we eat?". Given that his suggestion for large scale regulation is the answer, I'm not sure what he wants readers to take from the book. There are loads of positive facts and messages to choose from. Maybe it's s bit like your local fish counter where you're meant to pick whatever you find appealing.

This well researched and factual telling of the decline of the ocean's wildlife in humanity's search for food and profits. It's difficult to see how markets alone could protect the animals and their environment. Hard to be a techno-optimist that this could end well - for the fish, the oceans, or humanity.

This could be seen as is a terrific introduction to system dynamics of the broader factors that impact natural, biological systems.

Would that there were a website providing continuing data on these fish, their environments and ecosystems and related markets and economics. Being able to see the data and trends would enable readers to follow-up on whether sustainable practices are emerging, or we are in fact approaching the limits to growth.

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