![]() ![]() Throughout, Greenberg poses the questions many of us ask when confronted with a seafood menu or a supermarket shelf: Which fish can I eat without worrying? What does overfishing mean? What's the difference between wild, farmed and organic? Should humans domesticate fish as we have animals – or stop eating from the sea altogether? Fish, Greenberg shows, are the last truly wild food we eat – for now. ![]() ![]() He investigates the pollutants that cause mercury build-up in seafood discovers how Mediterranean sea bass went global meets a Polish emigre on the Shetland Islands who may have saved the cod and, gets sea-sick chasing blue fin tuna off Hawaii. He travels to Alaska to see the only Fair Trade certified fishing company in the world. He visits Norwegian mega farms that use genetic techniques once pioneered on sheep to grow 500,000 tons of salmon a year. But what's the story behind the fish on your plate? Award-winning writer and lifelong fisherman Paul Greenberg takes us on a culinary journey through the oceans, telling the stories of the fish we eat the most: salmon, cod, bass and tuna. Whether it's wild or farmed, fresh or tinned, in batter or a bento box, we're eating more fish than ever before. ![]()
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