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American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood by Greenberg, Paul
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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
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- Paperback
- Weight
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- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 0143127438
- Book Title
- American Catch : the Fight for Our Local Seafood
- Item Length
- 7.7 in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Nature, Cooking, Science
- Topic
- Animals / Fish, Specific Ingredients / Seafood, General, Life Sciences / Marine Biology, Fisheries & Aquaculture
- Item Width
- 5 in
- Item Weight
- 9.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS Book Award, Finalist 2014 "A fascinating discussion of a multifaceted issue and a passionate call to action" -- Kirkus From the acclaimed author of Four Fish and The Omega Principle , Paul Greenberg uncovers the tragic unraveling of the nation's seafood supply--telling the surprising story of why Americans stopped eating from their own waters in American Catch In 2005, the United States imported five billion pounds of seafood, nearly double what we imported twenty years earlier. Bizarrely, during that same period, our seafood exports quadrupled. American Catch examines New York oysters, Gulf shrimp, and Alaskan salmon to reveal how it came to be that 91 percent of the seafood Americans eat is foreign. In the 1920s, the average New Yorker ate six hundred local oysters a year. Today, the only edible oysters lie outside city limits. Following the trail of environmental desecration, Greenberg comes to view the New York City oyster as a reminder of what is lost when local waters are not valued as a food source. Farther south, a different catastrophe threatens another seafood-rich environment. When Greenberg visits the Gulf of Mexico, he arrives expecting to learn of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill's lingering effects on shrimpers, but instead finds that the more immediate threat to business comes from overseas. Asian-farmed shrimp--cheap, abundant, and a perfect vehicle for the frying and sauces Americans love--have flooded the American market. Finally, Greenberg visits Bristol Bay, Alaska, home to the biggest wild sockeye salmon run left in the world. A pristine, productive fishery, Bristol Bay is now at great risk: The proposed Pebble Mine project could under¬mine the very spawning grounds that make this great run possible. In his search to discover why this pre¬cious renewable resource isn't better protected, Green¬berg encounters a shocking truth: the great majority of Alaskan salmon is sent out of the country, much of it to Asia. Sockeye salmon is one of the most nutritionally dense animal proteins on the planet, yet Americans are shipping it abroad. Despite the challenges, hope abounds. In New York, Greenberg connects an oyster restoration project with a vision for how the bivalves might save the city from rising tides. In the Gulf, shrimpers band together to offer local catch direct to consumers. And in Bristol Bay, fishermen, environmentalists, and local Alaskans gather to roadblock Pebble Mine. With American Catch , Paul Greenberg proposes a way to break the current destructive patterns of consumption and return American catch back to American eaters.
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0143127438
ISBN-13
9780143127437
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208704607
Product Key Features
Book Title
American Catch : the Fight for Our Local Seafood
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Animals / Fish, Specific Ingredients / Seafood, General, Life Sciences / Marine Biology, Fisheries & Aquaculture
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Nature, Cooking, Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
5 in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Sh221.G74 2014
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Reviews
The Wall Street Journal "This is Mr. Greenberg's ultimate goal--to get us to eat the seafood from our nation's bounty. He points to the remarkable fact that, "while 91 percent of the seafood Americans eat is foreign, a third of the seafood Americans catch gets sold to foreigners." In addition, he points out, "Americans now harvest our best, most nutritious fish in our best-managed Alaskan fisheries and send those fish over to Asia. In exchange, we are importing fish farmed in Asia, with little of the brain-building compounds fish eaters are seeking when they eat fish."" The Boston Globe "Greenberg describes a wondrous moment - in the Bronx, of all places; while in search of reintroduced specimen he stumbles on "a real live, naturally spawned New York City oyster . . . [a] brave sentry from a lost kingdom." Greenberg is at his best describing such epiphanies - he also writes beautifully about fishing for salmon in Alaska, which offers up similar reveries." The Washington Post "Americans need to eat more American seafood. It's a point [Greenberg] makes compellingly clear in his new book, American Catch: The Fight for our Local Seafood ." Tom Colicchio: "This is on the top of my summer reading list: A Fast Food Nation for fish." Kirkus Reviews : "Blue Ocean Institute fellow Greenberg ( Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food , 2010, etc.) offers an optimistic perspective on the connection between preserving our salt marshes and restoring America's offshore seafood production. The author presents three illustrative case studies: the effort to bring oysters back to our Eastern shores, the threat to Alaska's wild salmon industry from mining interests, and the effect of globalization on Gulf Coast shrimp. A fascinating discussion of a multifaceted issue and a passionate call to action."
Copyright Date
2014
Lccn
2014-005395
Dewey Decimal
333.95/6
Dewey Edition
23
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