Hope in the Water explores the work of cutting-edge innovators and the breakthrough blue food technologies that could not only feed us but help save our threatened seas and fresh waterways. Explore an ocean of hopeful possibilities.
EPISÓDIO 1
The Fish in the Sea
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.
EPISÓDIO 2
Farming the Water
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.
EPISÓDIO 3
Changing the Menu
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.
Cooking Scallops
Martha Stewart harvests Maine scallops and turns them into delicious delicacies.
Cooking Urchin and Abalone
Chef Rhoda Magbitang takes a creative approach to cooking urchin and abalone.
Cooking from the Fish Pond
Restoring an ancient Hawaiian fishpond may be the key to feeding a community.
Martha Stewart
Shailene Woodley
Baratunde Thurston
Brian Peter Falk
Andrew Zimmern
Patrick Weiland
Thomas G. Lemmer
