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So we've talked about how climate
change can mess with food supply,

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but conflict can to Farmers
flee. Ports, get cut off

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and bombs can devastate the utilities, that
irrigate land, and keep the water clean.

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That's exactly what happened in Iraq.

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And it's changing how people get the
key ingredient in their national dish.

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For thousands of years.

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These marshes have provided the
people of Southern Iraq with fish.

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Lots and lots of fish.

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Carp has been the favorite here,

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going back all the way to when
this area was part of Babylonia.

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It is grilled and seasoned to make
Miss goof, which is now known as Iraq.

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National dish,

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Decades of War Invasion and political
instability have devastated.

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The country's waterways.

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But fishes place in Iraq e
culture is as strong as ever.

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What has changed is how people get it.

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We are in the Tobias, marshes

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heading out some fishermen who use
electricity to catch their fish.

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It's an illegal form of fishing, but
it's one way for people to make money.

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Hard,

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hard, hard. Marble my pool house.

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No, we're good. Sensitive logical of, huh?

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Some would call them comes to the marshes
five times a week for electrofishing

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and Method. His father taught him,

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that helps him to quickly catch
large amounts of fish at once.

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Electro fishing is illegal in
most countries including Iraq

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because it can destroy ecosystems and
already fragile fish. Populations.

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Shinhwa estimate units in 1770,

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mostly shot ago, which was a shaman.

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A lot of them. I know how. We're
sure. I'm at happy New Year in smoke

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or we could do like she know,
how do you mock my show tomorrow?

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Well, how did she
charge? It could send him

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a behind her is a fisherman and a
tour guide he grew up in the marshes,

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watched them changed and in
the 90s mourn their loss.

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That's when then president
Saddam Hussein drain the marshes,

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the Middle East, largest Wetlands as a
military strategy to control his opposition

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water, return to the marshes in
2003, but it wasn't the same.

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Lincoln has you can imagine bother,

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trying to match him

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with soapy water, High, natural or tracer.

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Pollution has made losing fish or
at least one safe enough to eat

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a very real and looming threat,

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but for now fishes savored,

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especially when it comes to me as goof
and preparation is taken very seriously.

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We are like, okay, it eventually.

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Are the summation horn player kulish?

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Did you get that left arm high simcha
and am government? It does where I am.

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I am. I am someone, you know,

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the water from the marshes flows,
South to Basra Iraq fish capital.

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The quality of water here. Got so bad.

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That in 2018,

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more than 100,000 people were hospitalized

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with symptoms related
to contaminated water.

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Widespread protests broke out against
what people believe caused the crisis,

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government negligence and Corruption.

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The situation did little to change
bus rides reputation for fish,

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but restaurants have had to adjust.

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Bella mashhadi is one of the city's
most popular spots and specializes

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in men's golf.

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We usually bring the fish
and everyday is fresh.

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This is actually a raised by in pond.
It's not really from the river, you know,

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they've turned away from Wolcott fish
in favor of those raised on farms,

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which many owners see us
safer and more dependable.

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I thought if I tell you girls let's go.

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Beyond the Sileo manage a chromium
Drama Camp simcha to schooi Allah

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and money in 17.

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How important is most
goof to Iraq? Pince-nez

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group has really specific
importance to be frank with you.

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It has special taste,

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you know, like even the the time
they spend one day grow the fish,

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it gives value to the
dish. So people loves it.

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All the factors that threaten the country's
fish are not going away anytime soon.

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but in some ways they've
made fish, more appreciated,

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a way to feel connected to
what Iraq is and has been.