Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Whereas just three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild, rampant overfishing combined with an unprecedented bio-tech revolution has brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of a complex and confusing marketplace. We stand at the edge of a cataclysm; there is a distinct possibility that our children's children will never eat a wild fish that has swum freely in the sea. In Four Fish, award-winning writer and lifelong fisherman Paul Greenberg takes us on a culinary journey, exploring the history of the fish that dominate our menus---salmon, sea bass, cod and tuna-and examining where each stands at this critical moment in time. He visits Norwegian mega farms that use genetic techniques once pioneered on sheep to grow millions of pounds of salmon a year. He travels to the ancestral river of the Yupik Eskimos to see the only Fair Trade certified fishing company in the world. He investigates the way PCBs and mercury find their way into seafood; discovers how Mediterranean sea bass went global; Challenges the author of Cod to taste the difference between a farmed and a wild cod; and almost sinks to the bottom of the South Pacific while searching for an alternative to endangered bluefin tuna. Fish, Greenberg reveals, are the last truly wild food - for now. By examining the forces that get fish to our dinner tables, he shows how we can start to heal the oceans and fight for a world where healthy and sustainable seafood is the rule rather than the exception.

保羅．葛林伯格 （Paul Greenberg）

1967年生，美國作家和散文家。2005年開始，定期為《紐約時報雜誌》（New York Times Magazine）、《紐約時報書評》（New York Times Book Review）和《紐約時報》社論版撰文，主要關注魚類、水產養殖和海洋未來的議題；亦曾為《國家地理雜誌》（National Geographic Magazine）、《GQ》、《Vogue》及其他許多出版品撰文。

美國國家藝術基金會文學獎助金（National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow），以及凱洛格基金會食物暨社會政策獎助金（W.K. Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Policy Fellow）得主。以本書獲得2011年詹姆斯比爾德基金會寫作與文學獎（James Beard Award for Writing and Literature）。

目前在紐約市及紐約州寧靜湖（Lake Placid）居住和工作。

譯者簡介

陳雅雲

美國蒙特利學院口譯暨筆譯碩士，英國新堡大學翻譯博士，現任教於新堡大學翻譯研究所，譯作近五十本，包括《踏入宇宙的一小步：黑洞、蟲洞、時光機》、《改變世界的簡單法則》、《從零開始：追蹤零的符號與意義》、《DNA：生命的秘密》、《一平方英寸的寂靜》、《消失的天才》等。