Every Last Fish

Rose George

Granta

£20.00

Rose George’s subject is the emptying of our seas – and the cruelty, stupidity and exploitation which fuel this avoidable tragedy. The exploitation is not only confined to fish: there’s an excruciating chapter on the slave conditions inflicted three Ghanaian men by a British company (now finally out of business). Rose goes to sea with crabbers, works in a fish and chip shop and a travelling fish van, investigates safety and disasters within the UK fishing fleet, travels to such diverse locations as Norway and Senegal and returns repeatedly to the complexity and sentience of fish; their capacity to experience pain and their incapacity to reproduce at the speed they are being taken.

A distressing book but necessary if we are to change our consumer habits.