The Fish that Launched 1,000 Ships
The Leonard Lopate Show | Jul 18, 2016
Journalist Emily Voigt investigates the international obsession with the Asian arowana or “dragon fish”— the world’s most expensive aquarium fish in her book The Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish. Her quest took her around the world, from southeast Asia to the Bronx, tracing the path of the mysterious fish, which can cost $150,000 for a single specimen.
