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On Season 6 of The Catch, host Ruxandra Guidi takes a look at one of the world’s most lucrative fish: tuna. The Pacific islands’ tuna fishery makes up more than half of global tuna supply and underpins these developing islands’ economies. But that could change. Climate change is pushing the fishery out of these islands’ waters, onto the high seas, and these island nations risk losing out. On this season, Guidi reports from the Solomon Islands to hear firsthand how the Pacific nations are grappling with these changes.
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S6 Part VI: Keep It in the Pacific
On our final episode of this season of The Catch, host Ruxandra Guidi and the reporting team head once again to the local fish market to hear directly from sellers on the challenges they face. Rux then sits down with regional expert and former U.S. official Kathryn Paik, now at the Center for Strate
S6 Part V: Nature’s Protectors
On this episode of The Catch, Rux and the reporting team head to the island of Tetepare, in the western Solomons, to speak to park rangers tasked with protecting local marine life. Much of their work on the island is focused on combating poachers, with insufficient support from the government. Despi
S6 Part IV: Hope for the High Seas
There’s good news for the ocean coming out of the United Nations’ annual meetings in New York: 60 countries ratified the High Seas Treaty, meaning the landmark agreement can now be implemented. The Catch reporting team was on the ground in Nice, France, this summer to observe the latest diplomatic p