Ocean Frontiers: The Dawn of a New Era in Ocean Stewardship (Part 3: Iowa & the Gulf of Mexico)
Ralf Meyer, Karen Anspacher-Meyer
(USA, 2011, 25 min)
Part 3: Iowa & the Gulf of Mexico discusses the Mississippi Delta—terminus of America’s mightiest river, nursery of one of the nation’s premier fisheries, and lately an unfortunate poster child for ecological disaster—is getting help from an unlikely team of people, in an unlikely place. More than a thousand miles upstream, in the cornfields of Iowa, farmers are changing their practices to send cleaner water and new life to the nation’s beleaguered Delta.
A new way of thinking, a new way of living, in concert with the sea, in celebration of those yet to come. Ocean Frontiers takes us on an inspiring voyage to seaports and watersheds across the country to meet unlikely allies, of industrial shippers and whale biologists, pig farmers and wetland ecologists, sport fishers and reef snorkelers and many more, all are embarking on a new course of collaboration, in defense of the seas that sustain us.
