He chooses wisely with the highly domesticated “king of fish”, salmon the unlikely farmed “holiday fish”, sea bass the industrially persecuted “everyday-fish”, cod and, finally, the powerful, wild and sushi-providing bluefin tuna. Instead, in the same vein as popular food writer Michael Pollan who focused on “a natural history of four meals” in the best-selling Omnivore’s Dilemma, Greenberg hones in on four key fish species that are representative of humankind’s relationship with fish. It is easy, therefore, for anyone writing to the “average modern seafood eater” about sustainable fish to get caught up in complex data and tricky scientific names. Humans have already catalogued 230,000 species of marine life, some of which are abundant and some of which are near extinction. Greenberg provokes fish-catchers and fish-eaters to rethink everything they ever thought about fish: there are not plenty of fish left in the sea and no, aquaculture alone is not the answer and no, that salmon is neither wild, nor fresh, nor sustainable. “What we have seen up until now, with both the exploitation of wild fish and the selection and propagation of domestic fish, is a wave of psychological denial of staggering scope.”Īmerican author and passionate fisherman Paul Greenberg does not mince his words in his New York Times bestseller Four Fish: the Future of the Last Wild Food.
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