commercial fishing

Executive Director Duane DeFreese chats with 5th generation commercial fisherman Charlie Sembler about how the Indian River Lagoon has changed since he was young, his time in the Florida Legislature, and practical advice for educating elected officials and the general public on how to help the IRL return to health.

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In this episode of The J2 Podcast, Jay, Josh, and Nico sit down to discuss the life of a young 24-year-old man in the commercial fishing industry. From the challenges of life out on the sea alone to the rewards of a good catch, they delve into the unique experiences of this often-overlooked profession.

The conversation then takes a turn to explore the topic of cultural appropriation and whether or not it should exist. The trio shares their thoughts on the importance of cultural sensitivity and the need for respectful engagement with different cultures.

Later in the episode, they delve into the measures of success and the role that money plays in achieving it. They question whether the current public school and college systems are preparing young people for success in the real world and offer some insightful perspectives on what it takes to succeed.

This week we look at BBC crime-esque series Lost at Sea.

Transcript:

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Lost at Sea - No Spoilers! 

This captivating seven-part series from the BBC examines the unsolved disappearance of fisheries observer Keith Davis who vanished 500 miles from shore while working on the tuna vessel The Victoria. Host New York journalist Rachel Monroe looks at the life and work of Keith Davis and other fisheries observers who spend months at sea monitoring the catches and activities of fishing vessels as the sole overseer for malpractice and mistreatment. It’s far from easy work. Often seen as the enemy, fisheries observers are alone with crews who usually don’t speak english with no way to contact anyone off the boat. Davis’s disappearance isn’t as rare as anyone might hope. On average in the last decade one fisheries observer has gone missing a year. This podcast looks not only at the disappearances and mysteries deaths of observers but other secrets of the global fishing industry like mistreatment of crew, smuggling, and human trafficking and slavery. Each episode is about 25 minutes long with the last episode coming out in November of 2022. They’re made up of narrative backstory and interviews both anonymous and not. Tone and music are serious which is fitting. It’s a gripping look at what could happen far from shore and watchful eyes. 

Similar pods: The Outlaw Ocean, The Kill List, and Captain on Deck. 

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Sources:

https://www.bbcpodcasts.com/listen/lost-at-sea/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-at-sea/id1641072737

In this episode, we talk with Bren Smith, a former commercial fisherman who is now the co-founder and co-executive director of Greenwave, a nonprofit dedicated to creating jobs and protecting the oceans through regenerative ocean farming.  

The oceans are taking a beating from climate change. It’s estimated that they have absorbed nearly a third of the carbon released by humans. This creates a whole host of problems as the carbon dissolves in saltwater, making it more acidic while making it harder for calcifying organisms like oysters and coral to grow.  

Fishermen like Bren are on the front lines of the changing climate, but Bren shares how the oceans can be a source of renewal. Bren discusses how his inexpensive system for regenerative ocean farming avoids the vices of land-based agriculture: it requires no inputs of pesticides, fresh water, or even land. But, it produces nutrient dense foods while absorbing carbon and nitrogen, creating habitat, reducing local ocean acidification, and mitigating the impact of storm surges. Bren shares what motivated him to provide open access to his farming designs, why he started a nonprofit, and how he evaluates new market opportunities that can support ocean farmers. Talking with Bren left us more optimistic about the future of the planet and we hope his story will inspire you as well.  

Links:

Greenwave (includes visuals of the Renerative Ocean Farm)

Patagonia Provisions Short Film on Kelp Farming and Greenwave

Bren Smith’s book, “Eat Like a Fish”

Episode recorded: September 16, 2021 

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Sylvia Earle is a legend in ocean exploration and conservation. She comes ashore in Crazy Town to discuss some of her experiences in the depths, the state of the world's oceans and marine biodiversity, the limits to growth, the wonders and disappointments of technology, and her belief in the accumulation of knowledge as a pathway for change. Sylvia's new book is called Ocean: A Global Odyssey.

In this episode, we will meet two more leaders in the indigenous food sovereignty movement who are using food to both empower and inspire.  From seed cataloguing to sustainable fishing, Indigenous persons are decolonizing their diets, preserving their traditions, and educating their non-Native neighbors about the important role food plays in all of our lives

Daniel Grooms, business manager of the Red Cliff Fish Company in Wisconsin, shares how the Red Cliff band of Lake Superior Chippewa stepped up to create their own fishing business to thwart discrimination in commercial fishing and feed their community directly.  

Elena Terry, from the Ho-Chunk Nation, tells us why she founded Wild Bearies, an organization that educates indigenous youth about traditional indigenous foodways to preserve tradition and empower the next generation.  

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“If the oceans die, we die. We all have a vested interest in making sure life in the sea is not diminished.”

On this week’s episode of the Eat Green Make Green Podcast I sit down with the legendary Captain Paul Watson. Captain Paul is the Founder & President of the famous Sea Shepherd, an international non-profit with a worldwide presence and a mission to protect all marine animals, widely known from the hit show Whale Wars on Animal Planet and most recently featured in the Netflix documentary Seaspiracy. We talk about how an experience as a child led him toward protecting wildlife, why he founded Sea Shepherd, why Sea Shepherd takes an aggressive approach to protecting the seas, the immense damage of commercial fishing, the wild west nature of the seas despite existing laws, why there is no sustainable commercial fishing operation anywhere in the world, the power of film and media for Sea Shepherd over the years, what projects Sea Shepherd is currently working on around the globe, the power of focusing on what we can do in the present moment, what we can do individually to help the oceans, why nothing gets accomplished without risk, and why if the oceans die we die.
Show Notes

Sea Shepherd Website

Sea Shepherd Instagram

Captain Paul’s Instagram

This episode was recorded as part of our monthly, live Sentient Sessions series. Watch the recording on our YouTube. 

Meet the Speakers:

Ian Urbina, Investigative Reporter, Pulitzer Prize winner, and Director of The Outlaw Ocean Project

The Outlaw Ocean Project is a non-profit journalism organization based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on reporting about environmental and human rights crimes at sea.

Ian is also author of The Outlaw Ocean series was originally published in The New York Times, where Ian Urbina (See: Wikipedia) has been an investigative reporter for over two decades. Several of his stories have been adapted into major feature films, including The Outlaw Ocean which was purchased by Netflix and Leonardo DiCaprio.

During his career, Ian has won a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News, a George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting, and his work has been nominated for an Emmy Award. He has degrees in history and cultural anthropology from Georgetown University and the University of Chicago. Before joining The Times, he was a Fulbright Fellow in Cuba and he also wrote about the Middle East and Africa for various outlets including the Los Angeles Times, Harper’s and Vanity Fair. He lives in Washington D.C. with his family.

The Outlaw Ocean reporting, almost all done offshore, took Ian across 5 seas and 14 countries in Africa, Asia, the Mediterranean, South America, and the Middle East. It resulted in 8 front-page stories in The New York Times and a book published by Knopf Doubleday. While reporting for the book, Ian was joined by an award-winning photographer from Brazil named Fábio Nascimento.

Lex Rigby, Head of Investigations at Viva!

After more than a decade campaigning to defend, conserve and protect marine wildlife, Lex joined the vegan campaigning charity Viva! in 2018.

As Head of Investigations, Lex is responsible for coordinating, conducting, and delivering key investigations to support Viva!'s ground-breaking campaigns.

Her investigations have been covered in the press many times:

Three illegal fishing trawlers arrested following night raid

Captain deliberately sank illegal fishing vessel

Imagine living in a cage filled with millions of tiny parasitic sea lice

With Sea Shepherd she participated in three whale defence campaigns in Antarctica and four anti-poaching campaigns from the Southern Ocean to the North Sea, including Operation Icefish (which Ian Urbina wrote about in the New York Times).

Pete Paxton, Undercover Investigator

Pete Paxton has been doing animal cruelty investigations since 2001, uncovering abuse at puppy mills, factory farms, slaughterhouses, commercial fishing boats, and pet stores. He has worked in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, India, and Philippines, finding and training investigators in several countries.

His work has been covered in the HBO documentaries Dealing Dogs and Death on a Factory Farm, and the Nat Geo documentary Animal Undercover. He is the author of Rescue Dogs, and has been awarded a Coin of Excellence from the US Attorney’s Office of Arkansas for his role as an undercover investigator to help shut down a seller of dogs and cats to research labs.

Much of Pete’s work has involved working undercover for weeks or months as facilities, enabling Pete to understand the plight of undocumented immigrants exploited in agriculture, and the factors amongst all commercial animal operations that lead to predictable criminal behavior.

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Work/life balance is a big topic these days, and for good reason. We need balance in our lives. However, can this focus sometimes obscure the fact that sometimes we just need to put in the hours and get things done, even if it’s after 5pm? Paxson Matthews demonstrates this ethic especially well as he shares his background with us, including how he coped with and has found solutions to losing his hearing at the age of 19. He then earned an engineering degree, went on to work for a large medical device company, and eventually decided to branch out on his own as a freelancer. 

The Being An Engineer podcast is brought to you by Pipeline Design & Engineering. Pipeline partners with medical device engineering teams who need turnkey equipment such as cycle test machines, custom test fixtures, automation equipment, assembly jigs, inspection stations and more. You can find us on the web at https://teampipeline.us 

About Being An Engineer

The Being An Engineer podcast is a repository for industry knowledge and a tool through which engineers learn about and connect with relevant companies, technologies, people resources, and opportunities. We feature successful mechanical engineers and interview engineers who are passionate about their work and who made a great impact on the engineering community.

The Being An Engineer podcast is brought to you by Pipeline Design & Engineering. Pipeline partners with medical & other device engineering teams who need turnkey equipment such as cycle test machines, custom test fixtures, automation equipment, assembly jigs, inspection stations and more. You can find us on the web at www.teampipeline.us

Welcome to Fish Hawk, a podcast which focuses on interviewing Mainers who are trying to make the world a greener place. Today's episode is an interview of Bert Jongerden, the recent  general manager of the Portland Fish Exchange Auction House in Portland Maine back in Fall of 2019 to talk about how the auction house functions, the fish caught and his thoughts on the local ocean climate. 

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Barry Nash, marketing and development expert for North Carolina seafood with NC Sea Grant, sat down with us to explain why seafood in North Carolina doesn't always reach the plates of people who live in our state.

Produced by: Maggie Burns

Broadcast from the Shoresides studio, Hooked explores how commercial fishing, recreational fishing, marine labs and climate change are intersecting in coastal North Carolina.

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In this episode a husband and wife duo share their experiences. Captain Joe started out on commercial fishing vessels in the Pacific Northwest at the age of sixteen. He has gone on to work in the oil fields in the Gulf Of Mexico, harbor tugs, and has since moved on to tow boats on the East Coast, towing barges. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to not be relieved from watch because your relief is dead? Mrs. Captain Joe works with Covid-19 patients and shares what its like parenting with a husband always gone at sea. We also discuss working out and why some mariners can't work on vessels that call on ports in Canada.

Here is the link to the crazy hot matrix video I referenced on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWicECdC4Ec 

Thank you for listening and supporting the podcast. You can contact the show at theshipslogpodcast@gmail.com. 

This month the Fathom team has been out on the quay talking about fishing safety. The new ILO 188 encompasses a new set of rules and regulations fishermen have to follow,  but what does it mean when it has to be put in to practice on the water? Fathom is here to help fishermen find out.

In this episode, the team speak to NFFO's Safety Adviser and Safety Folder Founder, Robert Greenwood and Clive Palfrey Cornwall's Fishing Safety Adviser about where ILO 188 came from, what the safety folder is how it can help make fishermen safer and what drills and risk assessments fishermen need to be doing by law.  They also speak to the Skipper and the Owner of the Cornish fishing vessel Stelissa about their innovative approaches to safety on board and to the shellfisherman, Jeremy Hoskin, who has trialled three lifejackets but still can't find one that doesn't give him back pains.

Finally, you will hear a spine-tingling account of a real-life fishing accident from Luke Selvey, the fisherman on the Emilia Jayne - the vessel on which Reegan Green was washed overboard and survived due to the quick action of his crew and because he was wearing his lifejacket.

Helpful links

Risk assessments
Safety Folder
ILO 188
Fishing Safety Adviser (Cornwall)
Seafish Training Providers

Social Media

Fathom
Ryan Davey (Skipper of Stelissa)
Luke Selvey
SCT Training

Funders

Seafarers UK
MMO 

We are taking you on a deep dive into the Future of Our Inshore Fisheries Conference - a hugely significant event that took place just a few weeks ago. Of course, team Fathom were there. Join us to find out what the conference meant to fishermen, and hear from Government officials on what happens next. 

Got thoughts? Get in touch @Fathom_Podcast 

A quick teaser on what you can expect from Fathom: real conversations with real fishermen and straight-talking experts on topics that include fishing regulation, safety, fish politics and stories from the sea. 

The first episode of Fathom will be coming soon. 

Your Fathom Hosts:

> Harriet Yates-Smith, Mindfully Wired Communications
> Chris Ranford, Fisheries Animateur Project
> Paul Trebilcock, CFPO Chief Executive

Editors
> Harriet Yates-Smith & Katrina Ryan, Mindfully Wired Communications

Chicago once had a booming commercial fishing industry. Lawrence’s Fish and Shrimp is one of the last vestiges of that industry.

On today's episode of THE FOOD SEEN, Ned Baldwin, son and grandson of a fisherman, chef/owner of Houseman restaurant in Lower Manhattan's Hudson Square, has long been inspired by the Norwegian word husmanskost, loosely translated to "everyday food." He's built his palate by way of commercial fishing, studying sculpture, and furniture making, and now renders near perfect versions of roast chicken and steak frites. It's all a practice of what's practical versus impractical, and how to mix in overlooked seafood, like bluefish, into a menu you want to eat every day. And THE FOOD SEEN's first windsurfing analogy on air!

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