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The Future of the Last Wild Food
Penguin Press
July 2010
On Sale: July 15, 2010
304 pages
ISBN: 1594202567
EAN: 9781594202568
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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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