American Catch: The Truth Behind Our Seafood Industry - Paul Greenberg

Early European settlers in the United States were so gob-smacked by the scale of the continent’s wealth of biomass that could be processed into food, they could never imagine an end to the abundance. Early Americans relied so heavily on the oceans to provide nourishment that prisoners were known to riot, they were so sick of eating lobster. Paul Greenberg, author of American Catch, examines the current state of American seafood, pointing out that New York’s once wealthy oyster beds are now inedible; 90% of our shrimp, the country’s favorite seafood is imported from Asia; and even the salmon and calamari that are caught here are often first shipped to China to be prepared for the American markets.