S26 E5: Waves of Extraction | "The Outlaw Ocean"

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🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The oceans are running out of fish. To slow down that problem, environmentalists pushed for fish farming or aquaculture. The problem is this industry became too big and too hungry. To fatten the farmed fish faster, they started feeding the high-protein pellets called fishmeal — made from massive amounts of fish caught at sea. Now, more than 30 percent of all marine life pulled from the sea feeds other fish in aquaculture farms inland. To explore this upside-down situation, we travel to the West African country of The Gambia for an offshore patrol where hundreds of Chinese and other fishing boats trawl for fishmeal production, cratering the local food source and polluting the coastline. Guest Interview: Dr. Daniel Pauly, Marine Biologist

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0:00.0	Uncover from CBC Podcasts brings you award-winning investigations year round.
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0:21.5	This is a CBC podcast. I got a call from Peter Hammerstein, one of the captains on the Sea Shepherd ships from the chase of the Thunder, and he mentioned that they were doing a patrol off the coast of West Africa,
0:43.0	specifically in the waters of this tiny nation
0:46.2	called the Gambia.
0:47.4	And he wanted to know if I might want to come
0:50.0	and see what they're up to.
0:52.4	We're calling the government of the Gambia
0:54.0	to listen to our people as they march right now.
0:58.0	The land belongs to the people, not to the companies.
1:00.0	Thank you very much.
1:01.0	Or power to the people. West Africa in particular is an interesting place just because it's one of the few places in the world
1:12.2	that still has pretty robust stocks, fish stocks, and so it is a magnet for foreign commercial, industrial scale ships.
1:21.0	What Sea Shepherd was interested in doing was empowering the Gambians to police their own waters
1:28.1	and to just see how many foreign vessels are out there and what are they up to?
1:45.0	Episode 5 waves of extraction. This is where you keep all real. This is what? That's what it is angel fish.
1:48.0	Angel fish.
1:49.0	And one we have here? This one is Lady fish.
1:51.0	Lady fish.
1:52.0	Lady fish. You Fish. Lady Fish.
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