A very strange question. What's this all about?
In the New York Times' weekly Book Review, Paul Greenberg examines the writer's passion for fishing, particularly for catching big fish like marlin and bluefin tuna. Nothing unusual about this; we've heard this before.
But here's the surprise: Greenberg seriously wonders whether Hemingway's hobby may have been responsible for declining fish stocks today.
The idea is not as far-fetched as it seems at first glance.
By ingenious caclulation based on photographs and historical data, Greenberg figures that Hemingway alone may have caught more than 500 marlin during his years in Cuba.
These fish, you see, never lived to reproduce; and therein lies the tale.
It's an intriguing essay, an environmental perspective with an underlying fondness for the man known as "Papa."
In the New York Times' weekly Book Review, Paul Greenberg examines the writer's passion for fishing, particularly for catching big fish like marlin and bluefin tuna. Nothing unusual about this; we've heard this before.
But here's the surprise: Greenberg seriously wonders whether Hemingway's hobby may have been responsible for declining fish stocks today.
The idea is not as far-fetched as it seems at first glance.
By ingenious caclulation based on photographs and historical data, Greenberg figures that Hemingway alone may have caught more than 500 marlin during his years in Cuba.
These fish, you see, never lived to reproduce; and therein lies the tale.
It's an intriguing essay, an environmental perspective with an underlying fondness for the man known as "Papa."
(Illustration is from the US Fish and Wildlife Service)
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