Hope in the Water | June 2024

In this episode, journalist Baratunde Thurston travels to Puerto Rico to see a sustainable diamondback squid fishery born from the wreckage of 2017’s Hurricane Maria. A native Hawaiian on Oahu has made it her life’s work to restore an ancient fishpond filled with wild fish. On the Scottish Isle of Arran, two villagers beat the odds to establish the country’s only no-take zone — an area closed to fishing and now filled with abundance.
Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart learns the ropes at a scallop farm off the coast of Maine. In Alaska, a native Eyak fi sherman plants state-of-the-art kelp farms in Prince William Sound — an antidote to years of environmental destruction. A scientist in Vietnam and former livestock farmers in Minnesota are all trying to make the world’s most popular seafood — shrimp — into a responsible bumper crop.
In this episode, actress and activist Shailene Woodley submerges with Santa Barbara divers who are turning unwanted "zombie" urchins into a marketable delicacy. In Philadelphia, a marine biologist connects Atlantic fishers with inner-city high school students through a subscription fish program that features less popular fish. In Iceland, an economist fosters innovation to get the most out of a single cod, including a popular cod collagen soda.