Hope in the Water

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 makes it her life’s work to restore an ancient fishpond. 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 fisherman 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.

Actor and activist Shailene Woodley submerges with Santa Barbara divers who are turning unwanted “zombie” urchins into a delicacy. In Philadelphia, a marine biologist connects Atlantic fishers with 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 fish, including a popular cod collagen soda.