![]() PATRICIA MAJLUF, Former Vice Minister of Fisheries: I think that must have started in the ‘80s, and then, you know, the big salmon industry in Europe and in North America. They’re fed to America’s favorite fish, Atlantic salmon Then they were fed to pigs and chickens and even your pet cat.īut now fish like these Peruvian anchovies are turned into feed for what’s called aquaculture, fish farming. ![]() Years ago, they were just used for fertilizer. ![]() Altogether, around the world, as much as 25 percent or more of all fish caught are poured into processing plants to be ground up and boiled down, turned into oil and dried into fish meal. But unfortunately, like, 99 percent of it goes into fish meal and fish oil and gets sent to China. I mean, all of this incredibly, like, nutritious fish that if people only ate it could probably be a very good way to use this resource. I think they’re going to have maybe a bigger one this time. I think the last pull, they had tons in a single pull. You’ve got huge flocks of birds, terns, gannets, petrels, all kinds of birds diving in, doing their own thing.Īnd then you got this big net just full of anchoveta. I’m looking out, like, there’s one, two, three─ I don’t know, five dozen seals, sea lions, all schooling up around these anchoveta. I have never been in a place where I’ve seen so life in one place. And that moment, just as dawn was starting to break and you felt the excitement of the world coming alive again─ that’s really the feeling that I had on the boat When I was a kid, the most sort of romantic thing in the world for me was going fishing in the early morning. A little fish for sure, but some years, Peru’s anchovy catch is bigger than all the fish caught in U.S. PAUL GREENBERG: This is what I’d come to see, one of the world’s great explosions of life, the opening of the largest fishery in the world, Peruvian anchoveta. PAUL GREENBERG: Oh, so you’re, like, looking for the glitter on the surface of the water. Why is the nighttime better for the fish?Ĭaptain JUAN CASTRO At night, you can see the fish more clearly. It was the middle of the night, in November ─ springtime in the southern hemisphere ─ when I boarded the Maricielo with Captain Juan Castro. PAUL GREENBERG: A fisherman is always on the hunt for the fishiest places, and few are fishier than here, on the coast of Peru. And when you eat what you catch, you feel as if you’re eating the sea itself. Some of the happiest days of my life have been these little celebrations that come after figuring out where a fish is, how it lives and how to catch it. I caught a King! After all these years! The skunk is off the boat. ![]() It feels like you’ve been given something precious. I’ve always loved this moment when the fish reveals itself out of the mystery of the ocean. What kind of society might we have formed had we not, as Melville wrote in Moby-Dick, “become landsmen, tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks”? What if instead, we had become what Melville called “a society fixed in ocean reveries”? Passing up to a bluff, I looked down on the isolated settlement and thought that once upon a time, a little 17th century village called New Amsterdam must have looked quite a bit like this, a modest place with its face turned toward the sea where the fisherman and the fishmonger were an integral part of daily life and where seafood held its own with land food in nearly every regard. So this is a passage from the third chapter of American Catch. And for the last year, I’ve been eating seafood every single day, sometimes for breakfast, lunch and dinner and a snack. And so as part of that grand experiment, on September 1st, 2015, I had my blood drawn, and then I stopped eating land food meat. So I’m working on another book right now, tentatively titled The Omega Principle, and it’s a book about omega-3 fatty acids. We’re honored to have Paul Greenberg in the town and all sorts of things, but thank you so much for making time for us here at the bookstore. BOOK STORE OWNER: Well, thank you everyone for coming. ![]()
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