Four Fish, Paul Greenberg
Four Fish, Paul Greenberg
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Four Fish
The Future of the Last Wild Food

Author: Paul Greenberg

Narrator: Christopher Lane

Unabridged: 8 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 04/12/2022

Synopsis

“A necessary book for anyone truly interested in what we take from the sea to eat, and how, and why.” —Sam Sifton, The New York Times Book Review

Acclaimed author of American Catch and The Omega Princple and life-long fisherman, Paul Greenberg takes us on a journey, examining the four fish that dominate our menus: salmon, sea bass, cod, and tuna.

Investigating the forces that get fish to our dinner tables, Greenberg reveals our damaged relationship with the ocean and its inhabitants. Just three decades ago, nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild. 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 marketplace.

Four Fish offers a way for us to move toward a future in which healthy and sustainable seafood is the rule rather than the exception.

About The Author

Paul Greenberg is the author of the James Beard Award-winning Four Fish and American Catch and a regular contributor to The New York Times. His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, and GQ, among other publications, and he has lectured widely on ocean issues at institutions ranging from Google to Yale to the U.S. Senate. He lives in New York.Twitter: @4fishgreenbergFacebook: facebook.com/fourfish Web: paulgreenberg.org

Reviews

Goodreads review by Martin on April 19, 2012

My opinion of this book can be encapsulated by an actual conversation I had on the train after putting the book away before disembarking: Nice stranger lady: "Were you just reading the fish book by Greenberg?" Me: "Why yes, I was." NSL: "Isn't it an amazing book?" Me: "You know, it really is. I'm really......more

Goodreads review by William on September 19, 2010

This is essentially a policy book about how to sustainably manage wild fish and meet rising demand will require a mix of government controls on fishing and on carefully regulated aquaculture. Some fish make less sense than others for aquaculture, and Greenberg introduces a number of fish that seem w......more

Goodreads review by H (no longer expecting notifications) Balikov on May 28, 2018

A very personal journey by Greenberg helps clarify many of the issues faced by those who want to continue to source their protein in our planet's oceans. I liked his approach and my book group found plenty to discuss from his personal descriptions.......more

Goodreads review by David on December 09, 2011

I haven't read Mark Kurlansky's Cod, but this book is clearly capitalizing on the popularity of that book. Paul Greenberg even interviews Kurlansky and has the rather more famous writer sample a variety of wild, farmed, and organic cod to see if he can taste the difference. I guess I can't blame Gre......more

Goodreads review by Blondish And on September 03, 2019

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 ove......more

Quotes

“‘The passion to save bluefin is as strong as the one to kill them,‘ Greenberg writes, ‘and these dual passions are often contained within the body of a single fisherman.‘ Four Fish is a marvelous exploration of that contradiction, one that is reflected in the stance and behavior of all nations that fish. It is a necessary book for anyone truly interested in what we take from the sea to eat, and how, and why.” —The New York Times Book Review

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