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Four Fish

the Future of the Last Wild Food
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Jul 04, 2013good_food_good_mood rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Finally a book about nature in the modern world that offers some hope! Seriously. Yes, we're quickly turning most of our oceans into deserts, but the author chronicles a couple of cases where we shut down fisheries and the fish actually came back! And we're not talking about a symbolic species like the bald eagle. One of the success stories is about cod--an ugly, tasteless but economically important fish. The author offers a credible path for sustainable management of many of our fisheries. Now we need a book that explains how we can overcome our tendency towards self-centered, scientifically illiterate behavior that allows us to destroy our natural world and our future. I will forever remember the anecdote of the elder whose response to the closure of a key fishery around his village was, "But not all of them are dead yet!"