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The catch, cooked

COOKING THE CATCH

Andrew Maxwell

Every time I sit down to write the latest article for "Cooking the Catch", I gather together all the notes, newspaper clippings and snippets of information from the previous few months that I have kept, and quite simply don't know where to begin. I have articles in front of me highlighting the fact that British waters are among the most polluted in the world; articles detailing the rubbish slick between Hawaii and Japan that is twice the size of the US, held there by ocean currents... Worst of all, a two page article in one of the most popular and bulky Sunday papers about a 400kg Thresher shark that was landed for its fins. The paper even published a recipe for shark fin soup. Did you know that shark fins are sold for around 50p per kilo..?

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