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Just finished The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger. It was well written, but showed its origins as based on a long magazine article. I got it for a deal on Amazon.
The book makes clear that fishing is a tough, dirty, and dangerous profession. Things are worse now, because they have to go out further and stay longer to find ever scarcer fish. It was precisely because of this that one boat owner stayed out as long as he could to get as big a catch as possible, despite being alertyed to bad weather. He tried his luck-and he and his crew paid the ultimate price. My next nonfiction will be
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, which discusses the attempt to supply humanity's needs for seafood in the face of the collapse of the world's fisheries.
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