anthony lukas was one. i'm very humbled to receive this award. thank you.applause] [applause] >> next finalist his paul greenberg. the future of the last while food. ♪ has written everything but the ticket from the outer banks to japan to norway in pursuit of the good fish, self sustaining, plentiful, tasty comanche. taught was such a fish and to commercial fishing lives like a contender for a while. tuna, the fourth fish will never be any of those things except for tasty. the number one example of what not seek. his case for environmental response will fishing industry and 39 for all is both highly readable and very important. come on up. [applause] [applause] >> i'll say a word to. i am really glad to see fish recognized in the general scheme of things. often their under water, and is really no coincidence that there are not recognized. but you know, there are many fish in the sea. can't talk about all of them in a few seconds, but i want to leave you with one thing which is that this year is the greatest battle that fish had ever encountered, and that is

anthony lukas project awards and panel discussion with isabel wilkerson and alex bissonnette established in 1998th. the lucas prize project honors the best of american nonfiction writing. it is just over an hour. .. and he would have been very happy, i mean, to see his friends and colleagues gathering to do what we are here this evening to do. i guess a seasonally vehement question one might ask is, how is this awards ceremony different from all other awards ceremonies? and part of the answer is that we make the awardees sing for their supper in the form of having a panel discussion was a distinguished moderator for this year is taylor branch, whom all introducing a minute. the reason he did that specifically has to do with tony, who felt that particularly in nonfiction writing, there wasn't enough of a structured conversation about our craft in there needs to be more. so we use this program and pretext to do that and indeed, arlene has sorted spread this concept to several of our other words ceremonies as well. it reminds us all love why we are giving these awards in addition to offerin