Name: 【TED】Paul Greenberg: The four fish we're overeating -- and what to eat instead (The four fish we're overeating -- and what to eat instead | Paul Greenberg)
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I didn't like to play them, I didn't like to watch them.

And for all of my growing up I fished on the shores of Connecticut,

and these are the creatures that I saw on a regular basis.

It was like literally having your roster devastated.

from a very personal point of view as a fisherman,

well, what was the rest of the world thinking about it?

First place I started to look was fish markets.

whether I was in North Carolina, or Paris, or London, or wherever --

I kept seeing this weirdly repeating trope of four creatures,

did anyone else notice this sort of shrinking of the market?

I realized that people didn't look at it as their team.

Ordinary people, the way they looked at seafood was like this.

to reduce the natural world down to very few elements.

We did it before, 10,000 years ago, when we came out of our caves.

If you look at fire pits from 10,000 years ago,

you'll see raccoons, you'll see, you know, wolves,

you'll see all kinds of different creatures.

But if you telescope to the age of -- you know, 2,000 years ago,

You look at the menus in New York City restaurants

you'll see snipe, woodcock, grouse, dozens of ducks, dozens of geese.

But telescope ahead to the age of modern animal husbandry,

So it makes sense that we've headed in this direction.

But how have we headed in this direction?

This is the way we've been fishing the oceans over the last 50 years.

World War II was a tremendous incentive to arm ourselves in a war against fish.

All of the technology that we perfected during World War II --

all these things were redirected towards fish.

And so you see this tremendous buildup in fishing capacity,

from the end of World War II to the present time.

we're taking between 80 and 90 million metric tons out of the sea every year.

That's the equivalent of the human weight of China

And it's no coincidence that I use China as the example

because China is now the largest fishing nation in the world.

is this incredible boom in fish farming and aquaculture,

which is now, only in the last year or two,

starting to exceed the amount of wild fish that we produce.

So that if you add wild fish and farmed fish together,

you get the equivalent of two Chinas created from the ocean

And again, it's not a coincidence that I use China as the example,

because China, in addition to being the biggest catcher of fish,

So let's look though at the four choices we are making right now.

by far the most consumed seafood in America and in much of the West,

Shrimp in the wild -- as a wild product --

5, 10, 15 pounds of wild fish are regularly killed

to bring one pound of shrimp to the market.

They're also incredibly fuel inefficient to bring to the market.

In a recent study that was produced out of Dalhousie University,

is one of the most carbon-intensive ways of fishing that you can find.

and they farm them a lot in this very area.

the place where you farm shrimp is in these wild habitats --

Now look at those lovely roots coming down.

Those are the things that hold soil together,

protect coasts, create habitats for all sorts of young fish, young shrimp,

all sorts of things that are important to this environment.

Well, this is what happens to a lot of coastal mangrove forests.

We've lost millions of acres of coastal mangroves

【TED】Paul Greenberg: The four fish we're overeating -- and what to eat instead (The four fish we're overeating -- and what to eat instead | Paul Greenberg)

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