A seafood journalist who has written for National Geographic traces the history of bass, cod, salmon and tuna fishing while assessing the critical state of today's commercial fishing industry, citing the roles of over-fishing and fish farming while recommending specific protections. 50,000 first printing.
Paul Greenberg is the author of the
New York Times bestseller
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food.
Four Fish has been published throughout Europe and Asia and was picked by
The New York Times,
The New Yorker and
Bon Appetit as a notable book of 2010. Greenberg has just completed his next work,
American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood (Penguin Press, June, 2014) a book that explores why the United States, the country that controls more ocean than any nation on earth imports 90 percent of its seafood from abroad. Mr. Greenberg writes regularly for the
New York Times Magazine, Book Review and Opinion Page and also contributes to
National Geographic, Vogue,
GQ,
The Times of London,
Süddeutschen Zeitung, and many other publications. He has lectured widely at institutions around the country including Harvard, Yale, Google, The United States Supreme Court and The Monterey Bay Aquarium. Over the last ten years he has been a W.K. Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Policy Fellow, New York's South Street Seaport Museum's Writer-in-Residence and a fellow with the Blue Ocean Institute. He is the recipient of a James Beard Award for Writing and Literature, and a Grantham Prize Award of Special Merit. In 2014 he began a three year Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation during which he will write "The Omega Principle: The health of our hearts, the strength of our minds, and the survival of our oceans all in one little pill."
Twitter: @4fishgreenberg
Facebook: facebook.com/fourfish
Web: www.fourfish.org
Paul Greenberg's writing on seafood and the oceans has appeared regularly in the New York Times Magazine, Book Review, and Opinion page. A National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow as well as a W. K. Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Policy Fellow, he lives and works in New York City and Lake Placid, New York.
Paul Greenberg is the author of the
New York Times bestseller
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food.
Four Fish has been published throughout Europe and Asia and was picked by
The New York Times,
The New Yorker and
Bon Appetit as a notable book of 2010. Greenberg has just completed his next work,
American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood(Penguin Press, June, 2014) a book that explores why the United States, the country that controls more ocean than any nation on earth imports 90 percent of its seafood from abroad. Mr. Greenberg writes regularly for the
New York Times Magazine, Book Review and Opinion Page and also contributes to
National Geographic, Vogue,
GQ,
The Times of London,
Süddeutschen Zeitung, and many other publications. He has lectured widely at institutions around the country including Harvard, Yale, Google, The United States Supreme Court and The Monterey Bay Aquarium. Over the last ten years he has been a W.K. Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Policy Fellow, New York's South Street Seaport Museum's Writer-in-Residence and a fellow with the Blue Ocean Institute. He is the recipient of a James Beard Award for Writing and Literature, and a Grantham Prize Award of Special Merit. In 2014 he began a three year Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation during which he will write "The Omega Principle: The health of our hearts, the strength of our minds, and the survival of our oceans all in one little pill."
Twitter: @4fishgreenberg
Facebook: facebook.com/fourfish
Web: www.fourfish.org
