Lee van der Voo | Civil Eats

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Lee van der Voo is a contributing editor for Civil Eats based in Oregon. Her investigations of food, energy and climate issues have appeared in ProPublica, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, and Seattle Weekly, among others. She is the former managing director of InvestigateWest and the author of The Fish Market, a book in which she chronicles the commoditization of fish. She does get seasick. She is not easily deterred.

The True Cost of Tuna: Marine Observers Dying at Sea

A watercolor-style illustration of a marine observer looking through binoculars at a tuna fishing vessel. (Illustration credit: Tina Zellmer)

Kristin Ohlson Wants Us to Reimagine Collaboration on the Land

Kristin Ohlson and the cover of her book, sweet in tooth and claw

The US Is a Dumping Ground for Illegal Seafood. Some Lawmakers Want to Clean Up the Market

buyers at a fish market