A review by carabones
Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish by Douglas Frantz, Catherine Collins

informative slow-paced

3.75

I won this book in a giveaway and stuck with reading it, despite some early apprehensions about the reporting style and repetitiveness. SALMON WARS addresses the global industry of open-net farming for Atlantic salmon, which the authors call "America's favorite fish." Being from the PNW, where we are lucky to have access to sustainably fished wild-caught Pacific salmon, I don't often think about Atlantic salmon, but I was interested to read about how this issue has even come to Puget Sound, where salmon farms are now banned after previous disasters. Despite lots of info in this book, I came away feeling that many of the big-picture issues were glossed over in favor of a series of case studies -- not my personal favorite style of nonfiction, but it works for this important exposé.