WEBVTT 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So we've talked about how climate change can mess with food supply, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but conflict can to Farmers flee. Ports, get cut off 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and bombs can devastate the utilities, that irrigate land, and keep the water clean. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That's exactly what happened in Iraq. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And it's changing how people get the key ingredient in their national dish. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 For thousands of years. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 These marshes have provided the people of Southern Iraq with fish. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Lots and lots of fish. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Carp has been the favorite here, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 going back all the way to when this area was part of Babylonia. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It is grilled and seasoned to make Miss goof, which is now known as Iraq. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 National dish, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Decades of War Invasion and political instability have devastated. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The country's waterways. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But fishes place in Iraq e culture is as strong as ever. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 What has changed is how people get it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We are in the Tobias, marshes 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 heading out some fishermen who use electricity to catch their fish. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It's an illegal form of fishing, but it's one way for people to make money. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Hard, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 hard, hard. Marble my pool house. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 No, we're good. Sensitive logical of, huh? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Some would call them comes to the marshes five times a week for electrofishing 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and Method. His father taught him, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 that helps him to quickly catch large amounts of fish at once. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Electro fishing is illegal in most countries including Iraq 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 because it can destroy ecosystems and already fragile fish. Populations. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Shinhwa estimate units in 1770, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 mostly shot ago, which was a shaman. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 A lot of them. I know how. We're sure. I'm at happy New Year in smoke 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 or we could do like she know, how do you mock my show tomorrow? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Well, how did she charge? It could send him 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 a behind her is a fisherman and a tour guide he grew up in the marshes, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 watched them changed and in the 90s mourn their loss. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That's when then president Saddam Hussein drain the marshes, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the Middle East, largest Wetlands as a military strategy to control his opposition 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 water, return to the marshes in 2003, but it wasn't the same. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Lincoln has you can imagine bother, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 trying to match him 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 with soapy water, High, natural or tracer. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Pollution has made losing fish or at least one safe enough to eat 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 a very real and looming threat, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but for now fishes savored, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 especially when it comes to me as goof and preparation is taken very seriously. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We are like, okay, it eventually. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Are the summation horn player kulish? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Did you get that left arm high simcha and am government? It does where I am. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I am. I am someone, you know, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 the water from the marshes flows, South to Basra Iraq fish capital. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The quality of water here. Got so bad. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 That in 2018, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 more than 100,000 people were hospitalized 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 with symptoms related to contaminated water. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Widespread protests broke out against what people believe caused the crisis, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 government negligence and Corruption. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The situation did little to change bus rides reputation for fish, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but restaurants have had to adjust. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Bella mashhadi is one of the city's most popular spots and specializes 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 in men's golf. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We usually bring the fish and everyday is fresh. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 This is actually a raised by in pond. It's not really from the river, you know, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 they've turned away from Wolcott fish in favor of those raised on farms, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 which many owners see us safer and more dependable. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I thought if I tell you girls let's go. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Beyond the Sileo manage a chromium Drama Camp simcha to schooi Allah 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and money in 17. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 How important is most goof to Iraq? Pince-nez 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 group has really specific importance to be frank with you. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 It has special taste, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you know, like even the the time they spend one day grow the fish, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 it gives value to the dish. So people loves it. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 All the factors that threaten the country's fish are not going away anytime soon. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 but in some ways they've made fish, more appreciated, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 a way to feel connected to what Iraq is and has been.