FBF Rose George: Every Last Fish, with Hugo Tagholm

Join Rose George in conversation with Hugo Tagholm for a fresh and fascinating take on fish, the fishing industry, and our shared future, from one of our most intrepid and entertaining non-fiction writers.

Cold-blooded, slippery, wet and strange: fish can be hard to think of as fellow animals and easier to consider as food. But what do we know of these creatures on our plates, and what do we know of how they got there?

In Every Last Fish, Rose George takes us inside the vast legal industries that support our appetite for fish fingers and salmon sandwiches, and the equally colossal illegal fishing trade whose practices and standards are unmonitored and often dangerous. It introduces us to the men (and it is mostly men) who fish, the women (and it is mostly women) who process the flesh and strive to keep fishing communities afloat.

It takes us from Alaska to Senegal, via Scotland, Norway, and Massachusetts, and from the nets on the surface to the murky depths of the sea bed.

In conversation with Hugo Tagholm of Oceana (and formerly Surfers Against Sewage) Rose will transform the way you look at fish and change your understanding of what lies behind the inscrutable eye that looks back at you.

About Rose George

Rose George is the author of A Life Removed: Hunting for Refuge in the Modern World (long-listed for the Ulysses Reportage Prize), The Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste (shortlisted for the BMA Book Prize) and Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Brings You 90% of Everything (winner of a Mountbatten Maritime Award), and Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood.

Rose writes frequently for the Guardian, New Statesman and many other publications, and her two TED talks, on sanitation and seafaring, have had 3 million views. rosegeorge.com

FBF Rose George: Every Last Fish, with Hugo Tagholm

Saturday 25th October 2.00pm

Cost: £6/£7/£9  ON SALE 10AM, 26TH AUG

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