Hundreds of dozing seals show how much cleaner the river is since it was declared dead in the 1950s“This is a sushi conveyor belt,” says the boat’s skipper, Stuart Barnes, as we watch the customers, dozens of harbour seals slumbering on sandbanks at th…
Guyanese fried chicken, and saltfish with coconut dumplings: Keshia Sakarah’s Caribbean recipes for summer
A rich, cultural mix on your plate: Chinese-Guyanese fried chicken, fried rice with island spice and a deliciously rich coconut saltfish with breadfruit and coconut dumplingsThe Caribbean is a cultural microcosm, and home to a beautifully nuanced world…
Suckers, trash fish and the fight over food traditions in Oregon’s Klamath Basin
Fight to save fish tells story of how European food preferences clashed with tribal systems, shaping what we choose to protectPerry Chocktoot remembers the last time he ate a C’waam suckerfish. It was 1984. The fish was canned by a Klamath Tribes membe…
“But We Are Going Astray”
Coat of arms of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, via WikipediaJoe in Australia on why beavers are fish in this super fun thread on Defector’s ranking of state flags, included mainly because the comment contains the phrase “born through supernatura…
Nigel Slater’s recipes for pickled figs and baked sardines
A winning way with short-season figs, and a crunchy, herby, baked fish treatThis is the most extraordinary summer I can remember. The day on which monsoon-style rains smashed my tomato plants to rags was followed by one so hot and dry I could barely fi…
Kurisu Omakase at Ichiban Sushi, London: ‘It is both dinner and theatre’ – restaurant review
London’s top sushi chefs are fighting to book a precious seat to see what this young man is doing in BrixtonKurisu Omakase at Ichiban Sushi, 58A Atlantic Road, London SW9 8PY. All bookings announced on Instagram @kurisuomakase. Dinner £108It is eight o…
Spain prosecutors launch inquiry into mystery fish deaths
Hundreds of dead fish have appeared along shores of one of Europe’s largest saltwater lagoonsProsecutors in the southern Spanish region of Murcia have launched an investigation after hundreds of dead fish began washing up along the shores of one of Eur…
Mackerel, hake and coley: Adam Byatt’s recipes for British summer fish
No batter in sight: grilled mackerel fillets with a salad of rhubarb and bitter leaves, coley with curried cauliflower, and hake with cockles and ciderMackerel is a British staple, and here, simply cooked with a crunchy bitter salad, sweet-sour rhubarb…
Voice Above Water
“Voice Above Water is the story of a 90-year-old Balinese fisherman who can no longer fish because of the amount of plastic pollution in the ocean, instead he collects trash in hopes of being able to fish again. The story is a glimpse into how one huma…
The Brilliant Abyss by Helen Scales; Below the Edge of Darkness by Edith Widder – reviews
Two books on the mysteries of the deep ocean take very different approaches in stressing the urgent need for conservationDivers investigating an underwater canyon off California made a startling discovery in 2002. They found a dead whale that appeared …