Atlantic halibut information is available to indicate a need to list the species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA). The American Fisheries Society has classified the species as "Vulnerable". In 2010, Greenpeace International added the Atlantic halibut to its seafood red list of "fish that are commonly sold in supermarkets around the world, and which have a very high risk of being sourced from unsustainable fisheries." Atlantic halibut The Atlantic halibut ("Hippoglossus hippoglossus") is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. They are demersal fish living on or near sand, gravel or clay bottoms at depths of between . The halibut is
The World Is Flat that is flat, but Thomas Friedman's 'brain' is flat". Some critics have pointed out that the book is written from an American perspective. Friedman's work history has been mostly with "The New York Times", and that may have influenced the way the book was written – some would have preferred a book written in a more "inclusive voice". Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has been critical of Friedman's book: Richard Florida expresses similar views in his 2005 "Atlantic" article "The World Is Spiky". John Gray, formerly a School Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and Political