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Underwater farms vs. Climate change - Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Megan Davis

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For billions of people, seafood provides a significant source of protein and nutrition, but over half the seafood we eat isn’t caught in the wild, it’s grown through aquaculture. Farmed seafood is one of the fastest-growing food industries, but the farming methods echo the problems we’ve seen in industrial agriculture. Is there a way to sustainably farm the ocean? Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Megan Davis investigate.

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Meet The Creators

Educator
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Megan Davis
Director
Biljana Labović
Narrator
Alexandra Panzer
Art Director
Yuki Kijima
Animator
Elsa Esteban, Marcos González, Yuki Kijima
Director of Production
Gerta Xhelo
Editorial Producer
Alex Rosenthal
Associate Producer
Bethany Cutmore-Scott
Associate Editorial Producer
Dan Kwartler
Script Editor
Emma Bryce
Fact-Checker
Eden Girma

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