Mark Mann

Text Mark MannIllustrations Thaïla Khampo The fishermen of North Lake, Prince Edward Island, have been noticing something strange in the last few years. Bluefin tuna have started swimming right up to their boats and have been practically eating out…

Loimulohi is a traditional Finnish technique for preparing wild-caught fish on an open fire. The fish is sometimes cooked this way in restaurants, but it can easily be prepared the same way outdoors. All you really need to do it right are a knife, a…

Looking at satellite images of the earth, you’d be forgiven for concluding that there’s nothing much left to explore out there. The world’s land masses have all been pretty well mapped, measured, and photographed, zoomable to the last pixel. So where…

Almost half the time the fish you eat isn’t the one you ordered. But what if that wasn’t necessarily a bad thing? The device was hidden in my backpack when I entered the restaurant. I set my bag on the counter and ordered a meal to go, to avoid…

Scientists at the Spanish Institute of Oceanography have spent 15 years trying to domesticate Atlantic bluefin tuna, one of the ocean’s greatest apex predators. The atmosphere in the new tuna-rearing facility in the small coastal town of Mazzaron, in…