Taste of a Nation (clip)

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

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

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

That's exactly what happened in Iraq.

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

For thousands of years.

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

Lots and lots of fish.

Carp has been the favorite here,

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

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

National dish,

Decades of War Invasion and political
instability have devastated.

The country's waterways.

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

What has changed is how people get it.

We are in the Tobias, marshes

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

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

Hard,

hard, hard. Marble my pool house.

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

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

and Method. His father taught him,

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

Electro fishing is illegal in
most countries including Iraq

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

Shinhwa estimate units in 1770,

mostly shot ago, which was a shaman.

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

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

Well, how did she
charge? It could send him

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

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

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

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

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

Lincoln has you can imagine bother,

trying to match him

with soapy water, High, natural or tracer.

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

a very real and looming threat,

but for now fishes savored,

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

We are like, okay, it eventually.

Are the summation horn player kulish?

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

I am. I am someone, you know,

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

The quality of water here. Got so bad.

That in 2018,

more than 100,000 people were hospitalized

with symptoms related
to contaminated water.

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

government negligence and Corruption.

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

but restaurants have had to adjust.

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

in men's golf.

We usually bring the fish
and everyday is fresh.

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

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

which many owners see us
safer and more dependable.

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

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

and money in 17.

How important is most
goof to Iraq? Pince-nez

group has really specific
importance to be frank with you.

It has special taste,

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

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

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

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

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