Foreign Correspondent

Season 17, Episode 15

Episode Title: Pirateland

Air Date: 2009-04-28

Overview:

How and why did a bunch of illiterate, dirt poor Africans transform themselves from simple cray-fishermen into the fearsome, gun-toting gangs mugging giant, sophisticated shipping off the coast of Somalia and gouging multi-million dollar ransoms? Marauding foreign fishing fleets took their lobsters.