What You Don’t Know About Your Seafood

I’ll give you a hint: location location location

There are many fishy questions about seafood . . .

Today I along with MacArthur “genius” fellow Carl Safina have a Guest Essay in the New York Times’s “What to Eat on a Burning Planet” Series entitled The Seafood on Your Plate has a Dark Secret. This essay was a long time coming and something I’ve been thinking about ever since I wrote my book American Catch. Most Americans are aware that their seafood is difficult to trace. A waiter in a restaurant can barely tell you if the fish on your plate was wild or farmed let alone in which country’s waters it swam when it was alive. This essay tries to take apart the global seafood supply and explain to readers what’s at stake for the ocean when we don’t know where our fish comes from. I hope you’ll take a look.