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Review: A fantastic lens into mankinds most important fish - To me the answer to how much fish is farmed vs caught wild was largely unkown to me before I picked up this book, but now I have a much better idea. In the recent years, books on sustainable farming have been fairly prolofic. Given general environmental concerns the desire to focus attention on bettering our farming techniques on land should be no surprise, but the focus offshore has been generally lacking. Four Fish is an illuminating book on the subject. The 4 Great fish the author considers are Salmon, Tuna, Bass and Cod. Each a fish with a fine history that is told. The book is split into a chapter on each fish. It starts with Salmon and goes into the history, biology and evolution and the actual salmon industry. It discusses life for the fisherman and it gets into the commercial farming industry. It then goes into Sea Bass and discusses how it came to be farmed and how the industry had challenges in fish infancy that were unique. It describes how the effect of the name bass creates a familiarity that affects consumption preferences. The book then gets into Cod and how it has past his former glory. He then questions the attempt to farm Cod despite its comfort food feel as it is an inefficient fish. The author starts to describe how perhaps replicating old preferences will do us more harm that finding better solutions. The author ends with the most wild of fish, the tuna. One gets a sense of the gradeur of the fish in both real qualities and economic price. One also is given an overview of the near impossibility of farming such a wild and energy using fish. The book concludes very clearly and sums up the work and discoveries he had made. Given the increasing need for food and constrained space, we need to get more efficient with farming under water. We need to be careful of the ecosystem, but at the same time realize that it can be a useful system to feed people from. We should be farming only those fish which properly balance the risks and rewards. Focusing on farming cod and tuna, who's energy in to energy out ratio's are too high doesnt make any sense and we should look at substitution candidates with better farming qualities. One is presented with a strong case for international recognition of the scarcity and thus need for protection of certain fish. A desire to enlighten the consumer is unrealistic and overfishing should be prevented by legislative cooperation. This is really a great overview of the fishing of some of our great catch. One is given both a great history of the fish as well as a sense of the importance of protecting them rationally.
Review: the future of fish - Four Fish is a book about the future of fish by an angler journalist and writer, Paul Greenberg. How many fish do we need for our food, and how many are there in the sea? Paul Greenberg writes the future of human growth depends largely on how we manage our ocean, and a few basic guidelines should be followed to find a balance between human desire and ocean sustainability. We are still in the phase of awareness enlightening with fish, while fishing is still governed by primitivism rather than by rational thought. Though marine ecosystem itself has a tendency to rebuild themselves, the world fishing inflates to be twice as large as the ocean can support. 170 billion pounds of the world’s wild catch is equivalent in weight to the entire human population of China. When the number is decreased to less than 30 percent of population in the water, reasonable potential recovery of fish may become unstable and vulnerable. From old times human has taken great pain in domesticating wild creatures to fill up our appetite. The experience of human-controlled reproduction of Atlantic salmon is recorded first in France around the year 1400. Chile now becomes the second-largest salmon-producing nation in the world and produces hundreds of millions. There could be a genetically engineered salmon on the market within a few years. Episode of Sea-Monkey aroused my interest. To rear Sea-Monkey became popular in my childhood. I never imagined it was created to feed sea bass at that time. European sea bass, like salmon, require three pounds of feed for every pound of flesh they grow, while tuna require twenty pounds of forage for every pound of fish they produce. Fish farming has problems of waste management, disease, and industrial pollutants, like terrestrial animal husbandry. We are still not find suitable solution for fishing in the contemporary battles of the food reform and land-based environment movements. Our choices of fish as food should be large societal ones that require our careful attention and our active political engagement. Also, we need to take a precautionary approach to the very bottom of the oceanic food chain and exploit those animals only after models have been developed. Paul Greenberg advocates four very good, noble, and ultimately effective principles, that is, reduction in fishing, setting no-catch areas, global protection of unmanageable species and protecting bottom of the food chain, will rebuild the seas. In the presence of ominous human demand, where nearly doubled its per-person fish consumption in the last century, he suggests five principles in selecting domesticated animals from the sea to compensate huge gap between wild supply and growing human desire. Efficiency, non destructiveness to a wild system, limited in number, adaptability and polyculture. When we hunt wild fish and eat them, we hunt them with care and eat them with the fullness of our appreciation. What makes this book very realistic one is his daughter. When Paul Greenberg, who reveals negative comment on eating tuna, selected bluefin tuna carpaccio, she said coolly “Hypocrite” to him. When he noticed in her the sign of rationality and the logic of both catching and saving fish during fishing, he released bluefish into the ocean. Staring into the sea below, she asked “will it live?”

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #6 in Fisheries & Aquaculture (Books) #149 in Food Science (Books) #589 in Environmentalism |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (534) |
| Dimensions  | 5 x 1.25 x 6.75 inches |
| Edition  | Unabridged |
| ISBN-10  | 1455809608 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1455809608 |
| Item Weight  | 6.4 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Publication date  | May 31, 2011 |
| Publisher  | Brilliance Audio |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A fantastic lens into mankinds most important fish
*by A***N on April 17, 2011*

To me the answer to how much fish is farmed vs caught wild was largely unkown to me before I picked up this book, but now I have a much better idea. In the recent years, books on sustainable farming have been fairly prolofic. Given general environmental concerns the desire to focus attention on bettering our farming techniques on land should be no surprise, but the focus offshore has been generally lacking. Four Fish is an illuminating book on the subject. The 4 Great fish the author considers are Salmon, Tuna, Bass and Cod. Each a fish with a fine history that is told. The book is split into a chapter on each fish. It starts with Salmon and goes into the history, biology and evolution and the actual salmon industry. It discusses life for the fisherman and it gets into the commercial farming industry. It then goes into Sea Bass and discusses how it came to be farmed and how the industry had challenges in fish infancy that were unique. It describes how the effect of the name bass creates a familiarity that affects consumption preferences. The book then gets into Cod and how it has past his former glory. He then questions the attempt to farm Cod despite its comfort food feel as it is an inefficient fish. The author starts to describe how perhaps replicating old preferences will do us more harm that finding better solutions. The author ends with the most wild of fish, the tuna. One gets a sense of the gradeur of the fish in both real qualities and economic price. One also is given an overview of the near impossibility of farming such a wild and energy using fish. The book concludes very clearly and sums up the work and discoveries he had made. Given the increasing need for food and constrained space, we need to get more efficient with farming under water. We need to be careful of the ecosystem, but at the same time realize that it can be a useful system to feed people from. We should be farming only those fish which properly balance the risks and rewards. Focusing on farming cod and tuna, who's energy in to energy out ratio's are too high doesnt make any sense and we should look at substitution candidates with better farming qualities. One is presented with a strong case for international recognition of the scarcity and thus need for protection of certain fish. A desire to enlighten the consumer is unrealistic and overfishing should be prevented by legislative cooperation. This is really a great overview of the fishing of some of our great catch. One is given both a great history of the fish as well as a sense of the importance of protecting them rationally.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ the future of fish
*by M***I on July 22, 2014*

Four Fish is a book about the future of fish by an angler journalist and writer, Paul Greenberg. How many fish do we need for our food, and how many are there in the sea? Paul Greenberg writes the future of human growth depends largely on how we manage our ocean, and a few basic guidelines should be followed to find a balance between human desire and ocean sustainability. We are still in the phase of awareness enlightening with fish, while fishing is still governed by primitivism rather than by rational thought. Though marine ecosystem itself has a tendency to rebuild themselves, the world fishing inflates to be twice as large as the ocean can support. 170 billion pounds of the world’s wild catch is equivalent in weight to the entire human population of China. When the number is decreased to less than 30 percent of population in the water, reasonable potential recovery of fish may become unstable and vulnerable. From old times human has taken great pain in domesticating wild creatures to fill up our appetite. The experience of human-controlled reproduction of Atlantic salmon is recorded first in France around the year 1400. Chile now becomes the second-largest salmon-producing nation in the world and produces hundreds of millions. There could be a genetically engineered salmon on the market within a few years. Episode of Sea-Monkey aroused my interest. To rear Sea-Monkey became popular in my childhood. I never imagined it was created to feed sea bass at that time. European sea bass, like salmon, require three pounds of feed for every pound of flesh they grow, while tuna require twenty pounds of forage for every pound of fish they produce. Fish farming has problems of waste management, disease, and industrial pollutants, like terrestrial animal husbandry. We are still not find suitable solution for fishing in the contemporary battles of the food reform and land-based environment movements. Our choices of fish as food should be large societal ones that require our careful attention and our active political engagement. Also, we need to take a precautionary approach to the very bottom of the oceanic food chain and exploit those animals only after models have been developed. Paul Greenberg advocates four very good, noble, and ultimately effective principles, that is, reduction in fishing, setting no-catch areas, global protection of unmanageable species and protecting bottom of the food chain, will rebuild the seas. In the presence of ominous human demand, where nearly doubled its per-person fish consumption in the last century, he suggests five principles in selecting domesticated animals from the sea to compensate huge gap between wild supply and growing human desire. Efficiency, non destructiveness to a wild system, limited in number, adaptability and polyculture. When we hunt wild fish and eat them, we hunt them with care and eat them with the fullness of our appreciation. What makes this book very realistic one is his daughter. When Paul Greenberg, who reveals negative comment on eating tuna, selected bluefin tuna carpaccio, she said coolly “Hypocrite” to him. When he noticed in her the sign of rationality and the logic of both catching and saving fish during fishing, he released bluefish into the ocean. Staring into the sea below, she asked “will it live?”

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thought provoking and eye opening read
*by G***O on February 27, 2012*

Human's view of the ocean so often seems to be directed by an out of sight out of mind mentality. Whether it is dumping pollution or over-harvesting. Greenberg successfully presents the issue of over-fishing on both an individual and global scale. Greenberg presents a fascinating history on the fishing industries of the four most popular food fish in the Western hemisphere, culminating most importantly on their precipitous decline and ecological impact. He approaches the subject as an individual fisherman and consumer, while also stressing the imperative for world governments to regulate the oceans. Along the way, he provides some hope by describing some fish species that do lend themselves to industrial scale mono-culture. In the end, he lays out principles for creating sustainable and responsible fisheries as well as the precepts for the type of global cooperation that would be required to prevent humans from eating these species into extinction. Greenberg says that individual consumer choices are not enough to sway the nets of commercial fisherman. He is also loathe to the question, "what kind of fish should we eat?". Given that his suggestion for large scale regulation is the answer, I'm not sure what he wants readers to take from the book. There are loads of positive facts and messages to choose from. Maybe it's s bit like your local fish counter where you're meant to pick whatever you find appealing.

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