For every ten tuna that once swam in the ocean, there is now one. One in five fish is caught illegally. And the fish on your plate may not even be what the label says it is.
Those are the stakes at the heart of the latest episode of Soundings, our podcast hosted by San Pedro Today writer/photographer Aaron McKenzie. His guest is Rose George, a British journalist who has built her career making the invisible visible—first sewage, then the global shipping industry, and now fish.
George’s new book, Every Last Fish: A Deep Dive Into Everything They Do for Us and We Do to Them, examines the systems, economics, and human stories behind the global fishing industry—and what happens when a resource the whole world depends on begins to run out.
Fittingly, the conversation was recorded in San Pedro, once the largest commercial fishing port in the United States and now the busiest container port in the Western Hemisphere. McKenzie and George discuss the moment the industry crossed a threshold it may not be able to walk back from, the strange economics of a supply chain that ships American fish abroad while importing 90% of what Americans eat, and why George thinks we should all be drinking bivalve cocktails.
Every Last Fish: A Deep Dive Into Everything They Do for Us and We Do to Them is available wherever books are sold.
The episode is available below, on YouTube here, and wherever you get your podcasts.
You can also watch/listen to the previous episode of Soundings with Tom DeSavia on the real history of L.A. punk. spt
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