Paul Greenberg’s 2010 book “Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food” has been widely lauded as an engaging and thoughtful analysis of the state of the world’s wild and farmed fish supply and what it may or may not become in the future. Besides being well known for his fiction writing (“Leaving Katya: A Novel”), essays and articles in the New York Times Magazine, GQ and Vogue, he is a guest and commentator on public radio programs like “All Things Considered.” Greenberg, 44, is passionate about fish and fishing and the New York resident spends as much time as possible with a rod and reel in hand. But it’s strictly catch and release.
“Four Fish,” which delves into the global issues facing cod, bass, tuna and salmon stocks, has earned the New York-born journalist the opportunity to weigh in on seafood-related issues far and wide. In December Greenberg was invited to testify at a U.S. Senate hearing about genetically engineered (GE) farmed salmon, an idea “whose time has passed, even if genetically engineered animals are perceived as belonging to the future,” he says. The next book for the father of two, “The Fish Next Door,” is about local fisheries and is tentatively scheduled for release in 2013.
