How has the rise of sushi, particularly in North America, affected tuna?
I think the combination of globalization, the interest in Asian culture, and the role of a poorly regulated supply of fish (tuna) kind of combined here. (Greenberg urges Canadians to continue to fight for a trade ban involving the export of Atlantic bluefin tuna prized for sushi, which is imperiled by overfishing. In March, the Canadian government rejected a proposal made to the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species because it feared the move would devastate fishing economies. Greenberg expects the issue to come up again in November at an international meeting.) Q: You tackled the issue of hypocrisy head-on, particularly writing in the New York Times that we shouldn’t eat big fish and then not being able to pass up bluefin tuna carpaccio two weeks later. A: I didn’t want this to be a scare book. I wanted people to know I wasn’t writing from some lofty height. But one big change since I wrote the book — I don’t fish for tuna anymore. As for my eating habits, I haven’t
