| Summary: | This programme shows how man has harvested the riches of the deep. Dreams of enormous catches have provided the incentive, but dreams are notably nebulous: for some, admittedly, their dreams have come true, but for others they have turned into nightmares. We meet fishermen on the Pacific island of Mitiaro, and with them fish for parrot fish on the offshore coral reefs. We take part in the world's largest fishery, which fishes for anchovies off the coast of Peru. In China we learn how the world's premier fish-farming nation utilizes its age-old knowledge of nature to feed millions of people. We also meet a group of affluent fishwives in Ghana and explore the bed of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan together with local fishermen, men whose livelihood is slowly wasting away as the sea has dried out to less than half its natural size.
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