Rose George | Every Last Fish: what fish do for us and what we do to them

Sun 26 Apr 2026 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm

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erica wagner

Cold-blooded, slippery, wet and strange: fish are our fellow animals though we usually just think of them as food. In Every Last Fish, journalist and author Rose George takes us inside the vast legal industries that support our appetite for fish fingers and smoked salmon sandwiches, and the equally colossal illegal fishing trade whose practices and standards are unmonitored and often dangerous. Can fishing ever return to sustainable levels?

Chaired by writer and editor Erica Wagner. 

Venue: Old Divinity School

Duration: 1 hour

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Author Biography

Rose George is a British journalist and author. She has written four non-fiction books. A Life Removed; The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters; Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Brings you 90% of Everything; and Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood. She graduated with a First-Class Honours BA in Modern Languages at Somerville College, Oxford in 1992 and an MA in international politics in 1994 from the University of Pennsylvania as a Thouron Scholar and Fulbright Fellow. 

Chair Biography

Erica Wagner was born in New York and moved to the UK in the 1980s becoming literary Editor for The Times in 1996; a position she held for 17 years. In addition to her career at The Times, Erica has published numerous articles and books. She has also written for The New York Times and frequently appears on television and radio, and has judged many of the literary World’s most prestigious prizes (The Orange Prize, The Whitbread First Novel Award and the Forward Prize).