For this episode, we head to the ocean to investigate Eric’s favorite thing in the world: FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISH! In an attempt to discover why so many fish seem to be disappearing from the world’s seas, we stop by the Berkeley Marina to talk with Captain Mike Hudson, a commercial salmon fisherman who witnessed firsthand the California salmon population crash over the last few years.

After three years without a real salmon season, Captain Mike tells us what it’s been like to hang on in the industry, what he thinks contributed to the the crash, and whether things are getting any better. Then we wish him luck, send him out to sea on his boat the Miss Larene, and wait see if he brings anything back.

While he’s out, we stop by the California Academy of Sciences to chat with Dr. Luiz Rocha, the Assistant Curator of Icthyology, about the future of the world’s coral reef fish. Rocha takes us deep into the academy’s enormous underground library of jarred fish specimens to show us how one very small fish could be a harbinger of the fate of other species as the climate warms and as overfishing, coral mining and ocean acidification take their toll on tropical reefs.

For this episode, we head to the ocean to investigate Eric’s favorite thing in the world: FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISH! In an attempt to discover why so many fish seem to be disappearing from the world’s seas, we stop by the Berkeley Marina to talk with Captain Mike Hudson, a commercial salmon fisherman who witnessed firsthand the California salmon population crash over the last few years.

After three years without a real salmon season, Captain Mike tells us what it’s been like to hang on in the industry, what he thinks contributed to the the crash, and whether things are getting any better. Then we wish him luck, send him out to sea on his boat the Miss Larene, and wait see if he brings anything back.

While he’s out, we stop by the California Academy of Sciences to chat with Dr. Luiz Rocha, the Assistant Curator of Icthyology, about the future of the world’s coral reef fish. Rocha takes us deep into the academy’s enormous underground library of jarred fish specimens to show us how one very small fish could be a harbinger of the fate of other species as the climate warms and as overfishing, coral mining and ocean acidification take their toll on tropical reefs.