Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (730 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1455809608 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 211 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Compelling and concerning--destined to become a classic! Lisa Dunckley Four Fish makes fish INTERESTING—and I don't even eat fish! The four fish that are investigated are the Tuna, the Salmon, the Bass, and the Cod—the four fish that dominate the menus at fancy restaurants and fast food chains and family dinner tables.The underlying premise is that globally we are overfishing. We are harvesting more fish every year than are produced. In some cases we have less than 10% of the fish that were there when commerci. Must read Tom McCoy We who like to fish often focus on the fragile nature of the balance between keeping and releasing, of conserving both the fish and the environment they live in, of getting access and protecting our rights. I wonder how many of us understand the dire straits the fish of this world are in? This book doesn’t discuss flies or lures or trips to New Zealand for trophy brown trout. It expands the reader’s view to the broader picture, the crisis t. Fishy storythat holds water. Scary stuff! M. Holmes I loved it, as the 5 stars indicate, but it is a very scary scenario. SALMON, BASS, COD and TUNApay 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 fi
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.. He travels to the ancestral river of the Yupik Eskimos to see the only Fair Trade–certified fishing company in the world. Today rampant overfishing and an unprecedented biotech revolution have brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of a complex and confusing marketplace. Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Just three decades
This can cause the fouling of waters with wastes and the transmission of diseases and parasites to already seriously threatened and endangered stocks of wild salmon. The animal’s creator, AquaBounty Technologies of Waltham, MA asserts that the fish will be sterile and grown in out-of-ocean bio-secure containment structures. Yonathan Zohar a professor and Chair of the Department of Marine Biotechnology at the University of Maryland Baltimore County's has created a test facility right in downtown Baltimore that grows an array of species and even manages to recycle t