Dispatches From The Outlaw Ocean - Episode 6 - The Fish We Turn To Dust

Gambia, like many of its West African neighbors, has embraced the lucrative production of fishmeal. But the booming aquaculture industry, widely hailed by conservationists as the best hope for slowing ocean depletion, is polluting waters, decimating fish stocks, and threatening the lives of millions worldwide. 

In this episode, we investigate the impact of fishmeal factories and foreign trawlers in West Africa, exposing how a fifth of all marine life pulled from the sea ends up ground up to feed farmed fish and why solutions meant to combat ocean depletion could be accelerating the problem.

Episode 6 of the 10-part doc series, Dispatches from The Outlaw Ocean, is out now. 

To understand the broader point of this series, please see our call to Reimagine the Realm.