The Catch

Épisodes

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  S7 Part VI: From Ridge to Reef 22.07.2026 21min

  To close out Season 7 of The Catch, host Ruxandra Guidi and her reporting team examine what’s to come as Jamaica works to rebuild after Hurricane Melissa devastated the coastline in 2025. But the answer to build a more resilient island will require thinking and acting holistically. They speak with private-sector representatives, environmentalists, and local fishermen alike to see how working together can help safeguard the island they all call home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  S7 Part V: Building Resilience 15.07.2026 21min

  One key way to build resilience in the face of climate change is through nature-based solutions. In the case of Jamaica, this typically means protecting mangroves, restoring wetlands, and planting native trees. The Catch team learns from Theresa Rodriguez-Moodie, the head of the Jamaica Environment Trust, and Camilo Trench, a marine biologist and ecologist at the University of the West Indies, about how these techniques can support and preserve existing but often degraded natural ecosystems so that they can be better equipped to face future threats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  S7 Part IV: Loss and Damage 08.07.2026 24min

  Hurricanes have become a part of life in Jamaica—with disastrous consequences. In response, the country’s government has made a vow to improve the country’s resilience and spread consciousness about climate change, but what does that look like? To find out, The Catch’s reporting team speaks with Matthew Samuda, the Jamaican cabinet minister leading climate, environment, and sustainable development policy. Then, they learn how mangrove forests might be a key buffer to protect the coastlines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  S7 Part III: Beach Access Denied 01.07.2026 19min

  The coastline is never too far in Jamaica, no matter where you are. But there is a fierce battle playing out over access to the island nation’s beaches, pitting new developers against local fisherpeople who rely on the ocean for their livelihood. And all of this is made worse by natural disasters and other effects of climate change that are rapidly reshaping the landscape itself. The reporting team meets with two local activists who are trying to hold onto the beach before it’s gone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  S7 Part II: Sun, Sand, and Sea 24.06.2026 16min

  Jamaica has become a major vacation destination, selling an image of pristine waters and untouched beaches. But the demands of tourism often go against the needs of the local ecosystem. To better understand how natural and human factors are impacting Jamaica’s reefs, host Ruxandra Guidi talks with Chauntelle Parkins, the chief scientist at the Port Royal Marine Laboratory. Then, a hotel worker-turned-activist shares his experience fighting for a better future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  S7 Part I: Seeing Is Believing 17.06.2026 17min

  On Season 7 of The Catch, host Rux Guidi and her reporting team head to Jamaica to see firsthand how the country is rebuilding from Hurricane Melissa with natural tools that promote coastal resilience. First, the team talks to artisanal fisher Michael Henry in Port Royal about the changes he’s seeing in the harbor. Then museum director Jonathan Greenland shares more about Port Royal and Jamaica's seafaring history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  A New Season of The Catch Is Coming Soon 10.06.2026 2min

  On Season 7 of The Catch, host Rux Guidi and her reporting team head to Jamaica to see firsthand how the country is rebuilding from Hurricane Melissa with natural tools that promote coastal resilience. These nature-based solutions, such as seagrass and mangroves, routinely support better outcomes after severe storms, particularly as Jamaica, and other coastal communities around the world, face increasingly volatile hurricane seasons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  S6 Part VI: Keep It in the Pacific 08.10.2025 23min

  On our final episode of this season of The Catch, host Ruxandra Guidi and the reporting team head once again to the local fish market to hear directly from sellers on the challenges they face. Rux then sits down with regional expert and former U.S. official Kathryn Paik, now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, to hear about Chinese investment in the region that’s driving development in the Solomon Islands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  S6 Part V: Nature’s Protectors 01.10.2025 23min

  On this episode of The Catch, Rux and the reporting team head to the island of Tetepare, in the western Solomons, to speak to park rangers tasked with protecting local marine life. Much of their work on the island is focused on combating poachers, with insufficient support from the government. Despite these challenges, as one ranger put it, “we still continue to survive.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  S6 Part IV: Hope for the High Seas 24.09.2025 23min

  There’s good news for the ocean coming out of the United Nations’ annual meetings in New York: 60 countries ratified the High Seas Treaty, meaning the landmark agreement can now be implemented. The Catch reporting team was on the ground in Nice, France, this summer to observe the latest diplomatic push.  Then, we head back to the Solomon Islands, where host Ruxandra Guidi hears firsthand from observers on the dangers they face at sea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  S6 Part III: Vanishing Islands 17.09.2025 27min

  Host Ruxandra Guidi and the reporting team meet with descendants of climate refugees who arrived in the Solomon Islands in the 1960s from the atolls of Kiribati. This community, like many others across the Solomon Islands, continues to grapple with climate-fueled changes today. According to Alec Hughes, a coastal and marine management expert based in Munda, Solomon Islanders are witnessing changes in their local environment, and fish stocks that make it clear "that there’s a lot more fishers out there and there’s a lot of demand for fish.” Munda tribal chief John Pina shares Hughes’s concern as he notes that he, too, is observing a shift away from the cultural norms and traditional practices that have shaped his community for centuries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  S6 Part II: Tuna Bonanza 10.09.2025 22min

  Host Ruxandra Guidi and the reporting team head to the island of Munda to join local fisher Tingo Leve as he fishes for skipjack tuna. The team then hears about the landmark Nauru Agreement, whose signatories control a big portion of the world’s tuna supply. Finally, the reporting team is joined by Adrian Wickham of SolTuna, the Solomon Islands’ top cannery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  S6 Part I: Salt Water People 03.09.2025 25min

  To kick off Season 6 of The Catch, host Ruxandra Guidi and her reporting team head to the Solomon Islands to hear about this Pacific island nation’s deep connection to the ocean. First, the team heads to Honiara’s fish market to hear firsthand from local fishers, processors, and sellers. Then they head to the Solomon Islands National Museum to speak with one of the museum’s archaeologists, Ruben Sangegeo, on the cultural and historical significance of fishing for these islands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  A New Season of The Catch Coming Soon 27.08.2025 1min

  The Catch is returning for another season, this time on tuna. Climate change is pushing this lucrative fish out of the Pacific islands’ waters, and host Ruxandra Guidi heads to the Solomon Islands to learn more. That’s coming up on Season 6 of The Catch. Follow and listen wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  The Catch LIVE at UNOC3 23.06.2025 48min

  The Catch hosted a live podcast taping at the United Nations’ third annual Ocean Conference in Nice, France. Moderator Philippe Cousteau was joined by former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and U.N. Special Envoy for the Ocean Peter Thomson to discuss diplomacy’s importance to our ocean. Our panelists followed this discussion by looking closely at the challenges and successes of the tuna fishery in the Pacific Islands, the focus for our next season. Our panelists were Filimon Manoni, the Pacific Ocean commissioner for the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat; Chris Dorsett, the vice president of conservation for Ocean Conservancy; Kristin Kleisner, the lead senior scientist and senior director for oceans at the Environmental Defense Fund; and Paolo Domondon, the chief program and policy officer for Global Fishing Watch. And stay tuned for Season 6 of The Catch, coming to you later this summer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  S5 Part VI: Women at the Helm 26.03.2025 23min

  According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, roughly 4 in 10 people working in small-scale fisheries are women. Half are fishers themselves, and half process the fish, like Cary Badgie, from Gambia, whom the reporting team met as she salted and preserved the local catch. Female activists and entrepreneurs also underpin these fishing communities, as you’ll hear from Senegalese climate activist Ndeye Yacine Dieng and local official and businesswoman Yayi Bayam Diouf, based in Dakar. Finally, host Ruxandra Guidi gets a perspective on a possible way forward for fishmeal production in a conversation with Libby Woodhatch, the executive chair of MarinTrust. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  S5 Part V: Migration by Land and by Sea 19.03.2025 21min

  In a region characterized by high unemployment, food insecurity, and depleted fish stocks, many fishers are forced to migrate. The fishmeal plants dotting the coast have only exacerbated these existing problems, economist Rashid Sumaila notes, saying that “overfishing would still be an issue in West Africa without the plants. But the plants make them worse.” On this episode of The Catch, host Ruxandra Guidi and her reporting partners look into the migration crisis. Senegalese reporter Borso Tall shares her reporting from a village in the region of St. Louis directly impacted by a fishmeal plant. And Sumaila sits down with Guidi to share his take.We want to hear what The Catch means to you! Reach out to us at podcasts@foreignpolicy.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  S5 Part IV: The Human Impacts of Disappearing Fish 12.03.2025 20min

  On this episode host Ruxandra Guidi and her team cross over into Senegal to see how the fishmeal industry's impact compares. She hears from local fishers as well as environmental NGO Environmental Justice Foundation's Bassirou Diajar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  S5 Part III: Sovereignty 05.03.2025 20min

  Foreign fleets off the Gambia’s shore are straining local fish stocks by “coming in at night and fishing illegally,” Sanyang fisher Alagie Gasama says. And the lack of enforcement, or even political will, by the government leaves these fishing communities to struggle on their own. On this episode of The Catch, host Ruxandra Guidi continues her journey along the Gambian coast by hearing directly from the fishers, processors, and local officials navigating these changes in their fish stocks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  S5 Part II: The Arrival of the Fishmeal Plants 26.02.2025 22min

  Gambians eat an estimated 55 pounds of fish a year, the most fish consumed per person in the region. This trend is shifting, though, with the arrival of the fishmeal plants, which directly affect these communities' food security. And as local activist Lamin Jassey points out, the fishmeal plant companies "never asked [the community], they never asked the young people" whether they wanted these plants in the first place. Join host Ruxandra Guidi as she continues her look at the fishmeal industry in West Africa and hears directly from community leaders on how they're advocating for change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices