There’s good news and bad news coming from Alaska and it doesn’t have anything to do with politics. The good news is wild salmon are currently at their plumpest and tastiest. The bad news? The headwaters of the largest salmon run in North America are under threat of possible industrialization.

Paul Greenberg, food columnist and author of Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, and John Waldman, professor of biology at Queens College and author of Heartbeats in the Muck, discuss New York City seafood and the prospects of local fish hitting your supermarket anytime soon.

Paul Greenberg, food columnist and author of Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, and John Waldman, professor of biology at Queens College and author of Heartbeats in the Muck, discuss New York City seafood and the prospects of local fish hitting your supermarket anytime soon.

Writer and lifelong fisherman Paul Greenberg looks at the state of salmon, sea bass, cod, and tuna. In Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, he follows the path that takes these fish from the ocean to our dinner tables, and shows how we can start to heal the oceans and make sustainable seafood the rule rather than the exception.