Kings of Their Own Ocean
Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas
THE INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Winner of the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award • Winner of the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for Non-Fiction • Shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize • Winner of the 2023 Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Paradigm Prize • Finalist for the 2024 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction • Silver medalist in Culinary Narratives for the Taste Canada Awards
This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ocean science, and the big truth of how our insatiable appetite for bluefin transformed a cottage industry into a global dilemma.
In 2004, an enigmatic charter captain named Al Anderson caught and tagged…
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July 18, 2023KAREN PINCHIN is an award-winning investigative journalist and culinary school graduate. A recent Tow Fellow at PBS's Frontline, she graduated from Columbia Journalism School with a master of arts in science journalism and has since been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Sloan Foundation. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, Canadian Geographic, Hakai Magazine, The Globe and Mail, and The Walrus, among other outlets. She lives, writes, and fishes in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with her husband, son, and a tankful of guppies.