Four Fish
The Future of the Last Wild Food
Ranked #12 in Fish, Ranked #17 in Marine Biology — see more rankings.
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 Trade–certified fishing company in the world. He makes clear how PCBs and mercury find their way into... more
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Barry Estabrook This book is totally unbiased and very serious at looking for solutions to the global fisheries problem. He picks four iconic fish to use as examples to serve for the whole spectrum. So there is tuna, salmon, cod and sea bass. He doesn’t condemn fish farming outright but he explores ways to do it so that we continue to fish in what is the last wild place where we get our food. (Source)
Helen Scales Greenberg brings Roberts’s story bang up to date. He answers questions about what we eat today and how that is affecting the ocean. He picks four fish, which in the western world at least are the main species we eat. Those are tuna, salmon, cod and sea bass. It is a fascinating story about how we got hooked on those four species, which he tells from his perspective as an avid angler. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Four Fish is ranked in the following categories:
- #55 in Agriculture
- #78 in Ecology
- #55 in Environment
- #40 in Environmental Science
- #56 in Environmentalism
- #22 in Fishing
- #54 in Food
- #43 in Sustainability
- #40 in Water
- #59 in Wildlife
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