By Charles Clover
Gourmands and health-conscious shoppers alike have fallen for fish; final yr in line with capita intake within the usa hit an all-time excessive. choked with food and of course low in fats, fish is the final animal we will be able to nonetheless consume in strong moral sense. Or can we?
In this bright, eye-opening book—first released within the united kingdom to broad acclaim and now widely revised for an American audience—environmental journalist Charles Clover argues that our ardour for fish is unsustainable. Seventy-five percentage of the world’s fish shares at the moment are absolutely exploited or overfished; the preferred forms probability extinction in the following few decades.
Clover trawls the globe for solutions, from Tokyo’s luxurious fish marketplace to the center of recent England’s fishing undefined. He joins hardy sailors on high-tech boats, interviews most sensible cooks whose menu choices can impact the destiny of whole species, and examines the useless firms charged with regulating the world’s fisheries. alongside the way in which he argues that governments in addition to shoppers can take steps to opposite this hectic development prior to it’s too overdue. the cost of a mouthwatering fillet of Chilean sea bass could appear outrageous, yet The finish of the Line indicates its actual price to the environment is way greater.
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