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 undermine the very spawning grounds that make this
great run possible. In his search to discover why this precious
renewable resource isn't better protected, Greenberg 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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