The Last Hunt for Wild Fish
Special Seafood Section, May-June 1998
(For a fall 2000 update, click here.)
The year 1998 is the Year of the Ocean. It is also the year when more than 300 of the nation's top chefs took swordfish off their menus because, as Carl Safina notes in "Song for the Swordfish," the broadbill "may be the fastest-declining creature in the Atlantic Ocean." It is the year when Peter Benchley, the author of Jaws, comes to the defense of the great white shark, in "Swimming With Sharks." And with Audubon's guide to fisheries management in hand, it may be the year when you think twice before ordering, say, orange roughy -- a fish that takes 25 years to reach spawning age. Wild fish are disappearing from the oceans at a truly alarming rate. This special section is a tribute to the great fish and a call to save them.
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David Doubilet for Audubon |
