San Diego Waterfront

This guide to the San Diego Waterfront opens with fishmonger Tommy Gomes counting what is left of a fleet that once numbered in the hundreds. From there it traces the mid-century boom when San Diego called itself the Tuna Capital of the World, with clippers, canneries and whole immigrant neighborhoods built on the smell of the catch, through the foreign competition and regulatory shifts that unraveled it. You will hear how the last cannery on the bay closed and what happened to the jobs that went with it. Listen near Tuna Harbor pier, where the story of the waterfront is still being written.