Saving Global Fish Stocks Starts in the Kitchen

Former oyster shucker Billy Marinelli is an environmental evangelist preaching not to save souls, but the sea. The New York native, who owns a seafood restaurant in Thailand's capital, is on a crusade to get people to stop eating fish and other sea creatures whose numbers are quickly declining. Marinelli says this is a critical issue not only for the 1.2 billion people relying on seafood as their main source of protein, but for the billions of others whose eating preferences have...

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