Host intro: (Iceland study fisheries, 8 mit students?)
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Person 1: This is the sound that built Iceland.
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Person 1: Sounds like a lumber yard, right? Actually that's the sound of a machine in a fish processing plant. The sound of a machine that chops of a fishes head and then rips out its spine. Not a pretty picture is it? But it's just one of the steps of turning ocean catch into *dinner fillet*.
Person 2: *Lots of fish are caught fish are important to iceland
EAMTRD061boat captain4.07
"So how long have you been in the fishing industry? Nearly all my life, since I was 15 years old. It's now 32 years ago. So, the only thing I know what [sic] to do."
EAMTRD061boat captain16.22
"They are so big and they are so deep, they keep so much in it. Just look at the land. We have one-third of the universe, land under us, one-third yes. Two-third of it is oceans so its plenty of fish, plenty of people on the land, plenty of all kinds of animals, same in the sea but the fish, they are always trying to . . . they are trying to run from us but we have to catch it. That's why it's called catching."
cod wars*
We've all heard the American beef industry's slogan, "Beef, it's what's for dinner." But in Iceland, it's all about Cod. In fact, Cod is so important that declining populations led to a series of naval skirmishes between Iceland and Britain in what's known as the Cod Wars.
TAM 004-Cod War Interview 1 1m25s-1m44s
"the first Cod War lasted from 1958 to 1961. Basically, Iceland extended its fishing limits from 4 miles to 12 miles and declared that all foreign trawlers fishing within the new limits would be subject to arrest by the Icelandic coast guard vessels"
TAM 004-Cod War Interview 1m44s-1m57s
"Responding to this...British fishing vessels"
Though tensions grew between the Icelandic coast guard and British navy grew, this first Cod war ended without too much action. The Second and Third Cod wars, however, saw bolder moves by both parties.
TAM 004-Cod War Interview 1 [starts around 9:25ish]
"During the first Cod War...did so in the second one"
But, as one participant in the war explains, the British didn't stand by idly as their trawl lines where cut.
TAM 001-Cod War Participant [starts around 5:30]
"I had one collision...cut their trawl"
Iceland's strategic position in the Cold War was even more useful than cutting trawls.
TAM 004-Cod War Interview 1 [starts around 5:23]
"Cod War and Cold War got intertwined"
TAM 004-Cod War Interview 1 [starts around 3:47]
"What the Icelanders could do...base in Iceland"
American pressure to keep their base combined with a world-wide movement toward 200 mile EEZs, and the British recognized their defeat.
TAM 005-Cod War Interview 2 [starts around 14:24]
"On 1st December...no fishing ever since"
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EAMTRD067minister of fisheries36.00
"definition of whether one should utilize the fish species, whether that is minke whale or cod, is the same, I mean if that can be done in a sustainable way without damaging the stocks, we cannot see any reason why we shouldn't do that, I mean subject to of course that we can sell the"
-to us- moby dick/finding nemo clip
reykjavik student -no whaling/nothing wrong/ticks off everyone else (diff of opinion)
whales eat fish*
An argument for whaling is that whales are eating all the fish. Some people believe that there are too many whales and whaling should continue in Iceland to control the fish population.
"We are losing our cod because there too much whales around Iceland. This is for sure, they eat millions of tones every year. The whales are in piece because it's not allowed to kill them. They are far over the limit they should be in They are killing down the cod and hadduck. Iceland should resume whaling to get control. 1 or 2% that we eat. So small what we need compared to what the whales eat. Needs to come into harmony. The humans are destroying the harmony. Over fishing in not a problem."
Script: While whaling might be pretty controversial for many people, one man we spoke to didn't seem to think that that's what we should be worrying about.
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"...and it's the how most of the whales get killed too you know just accidentally either either from ships hitting the whales or or getting caught in wires or something like that"
"(kelly
a ship can hit a whale, really? (guy: yeah) wow.."
"i think more whales are killed by whale watchers than whale hunters.. (kelly: oh my goodness) by the whale watchers actually running into the whales."
Script: We have no reason to believe that's true, but if that's what that man believes, AEHIEHTE. The CFO of the whaling company Hvalur spoke of his own concerns that books such as Moby Dick that make whaling seem so barbarian and bloody have skewed many people's perspectives. Around the world countries that are strong opposers of whaling villify their job, while many Icelanders don't distinguish whaling from fishing.
-just another fish in the sea quote
Even to the Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture, whaling is just another way to capture a plentiful resource provided by the ocean.
-mof quote?
environmentalists attack boats terrorism!
whales milk ice cream*
whale blubber rxns*
jackpot=beached whale
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fishing superstitions
yes there's one thing, we never start our new season on mondays and even not on mondays and not on wednesdays...
my mother always said that to my father, and now my brother is a captain here, never start on monday or wednesday so we follow that rule.
DDA Hidda 12 58
"that most people believe in elves but they're sort of, not, and elves, like, they're not the cartoon type that are tiny and sort of have a hat, they're sort of elf maidens and princes and sort of a community of, more sort of like the elves in Lord of the Rings, that's sort of the elves in Icelandic folk history"
1st tour guide, respectful of elves
tour guide and car keys
gods thrown over gullfoss
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samonrocks*
Tracey: Part of our trekking across Icelandic terrain brought us to Thingvellir national park where we got to walk across a portion of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that is above water.
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"I think it's spectacular to be able to walk on ridge system basically that comes to the surface, normally have to be in a submarine to see this. It's great to be able to walk on this...."
Tracey: That was Dr. Samuel Bowring, a Professor in the Earth and Planetary Sciences department at MIT and an avid rock enthusiast. I got a chance to talk to him more about the rocks jutting up on either side of me as I walked through the rift....
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"we're looking at the actual outcrop of the mid ocean ridge system at the surface of the earth, all of iceland is covered with basalt it all records a complex history of midocean rdige volcanism, but this is the active spreading center right here, and this is the axial rift valley just like it is on the sea floor that we're walking down, that's what makes it so spectacular."
Tracey: So we were actually standing in a place where the land beneath our feet was constantly moving apart. Now this might sound a bit scary, the thought of standing on two chunks of land that could at any moment rip apart leaving you to plummet into a dark abyss but Dr. Bowring assuaged any of those fears.
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"the plates move at about the same rate as your fingernails grow"
Tracey: So while I don't have to worry about any noticeable changes in the geography as I stand on it, this does open up the notion that over the course of millions of years, there has been a lot of change going on in Iceland.
todd volcano*
I am thinking that the first two minutes, with some of the more boring dull moments cut out, would be good. The clip would probably come in at about a minute.
Iceland is a place of rugged natural beauty. Towering mountains and rocky plains fill the landscape. Weather is unpredictable and wild. We attempted to climb Eldfell, a volcano in the Westman Islands, in eighty mile an hour winds. Todd Mooring recorded himself as he climbed.
021-Volcano Ascent ("This is Terrascope's ascent of the 35 year old volcano on Heimaey.") ("The wind is heavy...more importantly the rocks") (01:12-01:17) [fade in slowly because of background noise; transitions should be made to hide the differences in wind gusts between clips]
There is a little but more that I want to use, but Todd peaks out a bit, so I don't know if it would sound too bad. The part that I really want is right after Todd peaks; there is somebody in the background who says (faintly) "what the hell am I doing?" I think that that quotation would pretty much sum up the climb up the volcano.
lava bread*
Iceland is located in an area of high volcanic activity. They have used this for many things. One thing they do is make lava baked bread. The lava baked bread was well known in the late 1900's that the story goes that the King of Spain himself wanted to try it.
"When we make bread in the lava we take the dough we put it into a milk box and wrap it with aluminum foil then we dig a small hole in the crater and leave it there for 4-5 hours. In 1987 when the king of Spain came here with a lot of people one of the things that was on his schedule was to go and eat lava backed bread. He mentioned to the mayor that he looked forward to taste lava baked bread. So the mayor knew. But then an hour before the mayor got the new that the bread had been forgotten. He called the local backer and asked him to take a bread he already made take it up put it into a milk box dig it in t hole. When the mayor when up he was very proud when he opened the package in front of everybody but when he opened it up the bread was sliced."
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geyser
geophysicist on geothermal
emily's loud vs. quiet sound and why.
shower(energy so cheap)/radiator lots of energy few people*
Combine all of these alternative energy resources with a population of only 300 000, and you end up with almost limitless energy available to Icelanders.
010-geophysist interview
"we use a lot of energy, and maybe because its so cheap"
DDA Hidda 6 18
"People always sleep with their windows open to get fresh air and then just have a steaming radiator underneath the window to heat up the air. So...and that's just the way it is"
I feel like I should write more for this part, but I'm not really sure what to say. I could point out the irony in keeping the window open and the radiator going, but I think that that should be apparent to everybody.
smells like sulfur/geophysicist-smells clean*
Iceland is an excellent location for geothermal. The hot water is pumped out of the ground and used for their hot water supply. The water has lots of mineral from the ground the most obvious being sulfur. Because of sulfurs strong smell it is most recognizable to people. Desiree talks about her experience at eh geothermal plant
"Definitely a smell of sulfur very potent, when you first ride up on a bus the first thing you think of is rotten eggs and then you get used to it quickly it smells like boiled eggs then it smells like sulfur."
Outro:
Fish processing was once done soley by hand, but now fishing boats come in with hundreds of tons of fish at a time. This could only be turned into a sellable product on a reasonable timescale by using efficient processing plants.