The Crimes Behind the Seafood You Eat

11.  The Shadow Armada:  The Crimes Behind the Seafood You Eat by Ian Urbina, published by The New Yorker, October 16, 2023.  Pages 36-47.

The print issue of The New Yorker articles often have, as is the case here, a different title for their on-line version of the article.  For the link I provide above, I combined the print version title The Shadow Armada with the on-line version title The Crimes Behind the Seafood You Eat.  I hope it is accessible without a subscription.  If not, individual issues of The New Yorker can be purchased on-line or should be available in most public libraries.  

This piece fits the category of what I'm reading now; for a Zoom New Yorker discussion group this evening.  I think it is long enough to classify as long-form journalism.  It is deeply disturbing and dismaying on many different levels and, I suppose, depending upon the reader, it might be difficult to get through.  It covers a topic which I think few Americans and others are aware.  Though it is well-written, it is mostly for this reason that I include it in Writing I Admire.

The vaquita porpoise

Because the vaquita purpoise is mentioned in the article, I copied the above photo from a Smithsonian article The Population of Vaquita Porpoises Has Dwindled to Ten, but a Rebound Isn't Out of the Question, by Elizabeth Gamillo, May 11, 2022.