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Aug 08, 2011 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments

Licensed to Eel

Also, eel is a vegetable.

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Feb 06, 2011 | Post by: Phil Lees 1 Comments

Oysters are functionally extinct

Photo by Astacus Enjoy those wild oysters while you still can: just in from the American Institute of Biological Sciences, The overall condition of native oyster reefs is poor in most of the 144 bays in 40 ecoregions we evaluated. Although individual oysters are still present in most places, records

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Jun 16, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees 3 Comments

Tsukiji Market is not just fish.

It also sells fat red chunks of whale meat. Not much of it though. While the cubed cetacean is pretty hard to uncover (I only saw a single vendor), what does tend to get overlooked is that there is also a gigantic vegetable market next door. Compared to the speed

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Jun 12, 2010 | Post by: Phil Lees 6 Comments

This is where tuna ends

Whole frozen tuna on a forklift at Tsukiji fish market, Tokyo I have no hope whatsoever for the future of tuna. The death warrant for Atlantic tuna was written at the last meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, ensuring that current tuna stocks will have

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Dec 12, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments

Future of Fish in the NYT

It’s taking me a while to catch up on my reading at the moment, but Mark Bittman’s overview of the decline of fish is worth a look. From Bittman: Industrial aquaculture — sometimes called the blue revolution — is following the same pattern as land-based agriculture. Edible food is being

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Jul 19, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 9 Comments

Vue De Monde, Melbourne

When Dickens’ Ghost of Christmas Future Yet Come decides to take me out to dinner, he’d probably take me to Vue De Monde to wallow amongst the Baby Boomer dugongs in suits and pearls. That crystalline vision into how my life would transpire if I spent the next twenty odd

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Sep 25, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 4 Comments

Noryangjin Fish Market, Seoul

Whenever people describe fish markets, they highlight the predawn chaos and the movement and flow of fish as the only ordered element amongst the pandemonium. I’ve been guilty of it myself. At three o’clock in the afternoon, Noryangjin Fish Market in Seoul is a bastion of calm. The morning crowds

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