num_pages: 284
description: 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 investigating where each stands at this critical moment in time. He visits Norwegian megafarms 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 Tradecertified fishing company in the world. He makes clear how 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.
language: English
title: Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
publisher: The Penguin Press