'Four Fish' by Paul Greenberg - 1 views

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  #1 Chelsea Ambrose on 15 Mar 12

   

  Paul Greenberg starts off 'Four Fish' by explaining his personal relationship with fish; he grew up fishing in Long Island sound every summer. He proceeds to methodically go through the issues and solutions surrounding the four fish he found most prevalent in fish markets along the East Coast; salmon, sea bass, cod, and tuna. The main issues surrounding consumption of these fish, that he brings up are overfishing (duh), difficulty in breeding fish in farms, pollution form fish farm, inefficiency food-wise of fish farming, and difficulty of changing consumers' preferences for these particular fish. He provides some solutions to overfishing: smaller scale fisheries, or farming of alternative, vegetarian, more hardy species of fish in close looped systems. In the end, Greenberg comes to the realistic conclusion that humans will continue to eat fish, but we must "direct that appetite away from sensitive, unmanageable wildlife, and usher it toward sustainable, productive domesticated fish".
  
  I supposed that I would recommend this book to any consumer of fish, or any person who is interested in marine biology. Overfishing is a confusing subject and consumers' dollars have impacts, so I think it's important for those who eat fish to be wholly informed about the problems surrounding the food that they eat.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Paul Greenberg starts off 'Four Fish' by explaining his personal relationship with fish; he grew up fishing in Long Island sound every summer. He proceeds to methodically go through the issues and solutions surrounding the four fish he found most prevalent in fish markets along the East Coast; salmon, sea bass, cod, and tuna. The main issues surrounding consumption of these fish, that he brings up are overfishing (duh), difficulty in breeding fish in farms, pollution form fish farm, inefficiency food-wise of fish farming, and difficulty of changing consumers' preferences for these particular fish. He provides some solutions to overfishing: smaller scale fisheries, or farming of alternative, vegetarian, more hardy species of fish in close looped systems. In the end, Greenberg comes to the realistic conclusion that humans will continue to eat fish, but we must "direct that appetite away from sensitive, unmanageable wildlife, and usher it toward sustainable, productive domesticated fish". <br /> <br /> I supposed that I would recommend this book to any consumer of fish, or any person who is interested in marine biology. Overfishing is a confusing subject and consumers' dollars have impacts, so I think it's important for those who eat fish to be wholly informed about the problems surrounding the food that they eat.</div>

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