Ian Koss
Reporter, producer, and host at GBH (credited in episode as Ian Coss/Koss) who created the Catching the Codfather series and is the episode's featured storyteller about Carlos Rafael and New Bedford's fishing controversies.
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Feb 25, 2026 • 39min
The Codfather
Ian Koss, reporter and producer who created Catching the Codfather, tells the story of Carlos Rafael and New Bedford’s fishing controversies. The conversation covers undercover stings, cash ledgers listing fish, how NOAA trawl surveys count fish, the Trawlgate scandal, choke species and quota incentives, and local mistrust that let fraud persist.
