Four Fish: The Future Of The Last Wild Food By Paul Greenberg

Slowly but surely, an immense amount of global fish populations of the seas are diminishing. Not just any fish population, it’s mainly fish species that have a strong impact on world-wide marketing. Immediate demand is the number one reason as to why we have several problems with not only the marketing but, also with decreasing in population. It creates scarcity among these fish species that are being consumed frequently and which humankind depends so much upon. Diving more into detail, according to author Paul Greenberg publisher of the book Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, we have four main fish that are being deprived. These four fish species are cod, tuna, salmon, and sea bass; however, he also talks about other fish but mainly about these four species. Greenberg analyzes a

It is interesting to me when we hear the agricultural industries talking about how they have the power to create “more food for more people”. It is an absolute huge misinterpretation. The market are actually taking sorts of luxury products and turning them into common plates. These fish shouldn’t have ever even been commonly eaten as they now are today. Modern industrial advances have permitted humankind to realize the huge potential for fish domestication. However, “just because we can tame a fish,” Greenberg states, “doesn’t mean we should.” The main conflict with our relationship with the sea is that we view it as abundant and “free of charge.” It is a major mistake because all four fish require a tremendous amount of feed. Early day farming of salmon for example, took as many as three to six pounds of wild fish to grow a single pound of salmon, as Greenberg stated (Greenberg). The calculations were defiantly absurd in this case. Greenberg was not against the usage of resources, but he was indeed against them being used idiotically. Certainly, I must say this point of view was more than