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This two-parter examines the huge project now restoring the Nisqually River, from its source on Mount Rainier to the estuary in Puget Sound. Led by the Nisqually Indian tribe, the restoration aims to fill the river once again with abundant, magnificent wild salmon.
Air date: 11/08/2012
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The conclusion of this two-part episode examines the huge project now restoring the Nisqually River, from its source on Mount Rainier to the estuary in Puget Sound. Led by the Nisqually Indian tribe, the restoration aims to fill the river once again with abundant, magnificent wild salmon.
Air date: 11/15/2012
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After local leaders launched a crusade to end the slaughter of Trinidad?s thousand-pound leatherback turtles, the turtles were transformed from shark bait to tourist attraction. Now Trinidad?s beaches support 80 percent of the entire Caribbean?s leatherbacks and nearby villages make a great living...
Air date: 01/03/2013
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In the rich fishing grounds of New England and Canada, it seemed as if cod would never run out ? until they did. Fishing communities from Newfoundland to Massachusetts fell apart. Widespread closures in the 1990s aimed to let the cod recover, but it?s been a long wait. Carl Safina goes fishing to...
Air date: 01/10/2013
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Lionfish are beautiful, colorful reef fish found throughout the Indian and Pacific oceans ? that?s the good news. The bad news is they?re now found all over the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic coasts of North and South America as well. Alien to those waters, lionfish are the perfect invasive species...
Air date: 01/24/2013
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