On Oceans, Seafood & Sustainability with Paul Greenberg — WildFed Podcast #006

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In this episode:

Paul Greenberg | Best-selling author of Four Fish, American Catch & The Omega Principle

Podcast discussion:

• Introductions in Manhattan — the first seaport of America

• How Paul came to write about fish

• What type of fishing Paul enjoys

• Seafood background of New York City

• Overview of Four Fish

• Four flesh archetypes of fish

• Getting to the root of fish flavor perceptions

• The sushi fish

• Sustainability of commercial fishery into the future

• The shocking percentage of fish imported into America

• Why do we need to eat fish?

• All about Omega-3s

• The giant algae conspiracy

• Omega World

• An experiment with an ALL-fish diet

• How many fish meals does Paul like to eat in a week?

• Paul’s outlook on the future of our planet

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Episode Resources: 

• Paul’s website

• Paul on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram @4fishgreenberg

• Paul’s books:

  • Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

  • American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood

  • The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet

• Mark Kurlansky

• Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky

• Article: Commercial Fleets Reduced Big Fish by 90%, Study Says

• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan

• Spey casting

• Hudson-Raritan Estuary

• New York's Sturgeon

• Oyster

• The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell by Mark Kurlansky

• Sheepshead

• Whiting

• Atlantic salmon

• Sea bass

• Tilapia

• Lake trout

• A Tale of Two Fish by Paul Greenberg

• Bluefish

• Striped bass

• The Complete Angler by Izaac Walton

• Tuna

• Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces

• Pacific bluefin tuna

• Robert Steneck

• Ray Hillborn

• Great Oxygenation Event

• VITAL Study: Supplements of Omega-3s or Vitamin D Do Not Reduce CVD or Cancers

• The Omega Diet: The Lifesaving Nutritional Program Based on the Diet of the Island of Crete by Artemis P. Simopoulos

• Walter Willett

• Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle

• Paul on Frontline - The Fish on My Plate

• How Much Should Major Polluters Pay? A DuPont Settlement Provides a Model by Paul Greenberg

• Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath

• Food Rules by Michael Pollan

• The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina

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Meet Paul Greenberg

Paul Greenberg is the New York Times bestselling author of Four Fish, American Catch, and The Omega Principle. A regular contributor to the Times and many other publications, Mr. Greenberg is the winner of a James Beard Award for Writing and Literature, a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation and the writer-in-residence at the Safina Center. He has been featured on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, TED and PBS's Frontline.

Website | Instagram @4fishgreenberg