Book Log 2014 #33: American Catch by Paul Greenberg

In this follow-up to the award-winning Four Fish, Greenberg looks at three native species of seafood - New York oysters, Gulf shrimp, and wild Alaskan salmon - to answer the question of why most of the US-caught seafood is exported while most of the US-eaten seafood is imported (and how that arrangement impacts the US economy and environment).

There are a number of reasons why this has happened, from a US dietary shift away from seafood to the profits to be made selling fresh seafood in the Asian market. There's a good argument made for trying to shift the US back to focusing on domestic production and consumption of seafood, though the challenges to doing so are significant.

I liked the book, and need to seek out Four Fish in the future.