Social FISHtancing

In our final episode of Social FISHtancing, we reflect back on one full year of living in the COVID-19 pandemic by visiting one last time with some of our regular guests. In this episode, we hear from: Melissa Collier from West Coast Wild Scallops in British Columbia (www.wildscallop.org/) Stephen Kurian of Wild for Salmon (www.wildforsalmon.com) Jordyn Kastlunger, who sells at Tuna Harbor Dockside Market in San Diego (www.thdocksidemarket.com/) Emma Kramer of Straight to the Plate in Alaska (www.alaskafishmarket.com/) You also heard brief clips at the top of the episode from: Tracy Sylvester from Wooden Island Wild in Massachusetts/Alaska (www.woodenislandwild.com) Carson Minor of Lincoln Fisheries on Lake Erie We love to hear your feedback. Follow the Coastal Routes Project www.twitter.com/@Coastal_Routes Philip Loring www.twitter.com/@ConserveChange Hannah Harrison www.twitter.com/@fishpeopleplace Emily De Sousa www.twitter.com/@emilyseaside If you have a story to share with us or questions about how we make the podcast, send us an email at [email protected].

Have you ever wondered how to make a sustainable seafood choice for dinner? Or felt overwhelmed when standing in front of a seafood counter? Then this episode is for you! Join us this week as we discuss some of the ecolabels and tools for assessing seafood sustainability, including our own rules for choosing what to eat! This episode featured interviews with: Isabella Sulpizio at Ocean Wise (@oceanwiseseafood) Claire Dawson at Ocean Wise (@oceanwiseseafood) Jennifer Bushman (www.jenniferbushman.com) Music in this episode is "Twinkle Twinkle" by David Mumford, available on the Free Music Archive (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/David_Mumford/Bonfire_Music/David_Mumford_-_Bonfire_Music_-_11_Twinkle_Twinkle). We love to hear your feedback. Follow the Coastal Routes Project www.twitter.com/@Coastal_Routes Philip Loring www.twitter.com/@ConserveChange Hannah Harrison www.twitter.com/@fishpeopleplace Emily De Sousa www.twitter.com/@emilyseaside If you have a story to share with us or questions about how we make the podcast, send us an email at [email protected].

This week, we are putting aside our normal fish stories, and instead focus on one of our most frequently asked questions, "How do you make your podcast?" In this fun conversation, complete with outtakes, we bring you the methods section of our podcast, with details about how we plan, record, and produce our episodes. We also talk a little bit about our use of podcasting as an emerging qualitative method. To learn more about scholarly podcasting and peer-review, check out the work of Dr. Hannah McGregor (https://hannahmcgregor.com/) and the Amplify Podcast Network (https://amplifypodcastnetwork.ca/). This week's music is "Mockingbird" by David Mumford, available at the Free Music Archive (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/David_Mumford/Bonfire_Music/David_Mumford_-_Mockingbird_Instrumental). We love to hear your feedback. Follow the Coastal Routes Project www.twitter.com/@Coastal_Routes Philip Loring www.twitter.com/@ConserveChange Hannah Harrison www.twitter.com/@fishpeopleplace Emily De Sousa www.twitter.com/@emilyseaside If you have a story to share with us or questions about how we make the podcast, send us an email at [email protected].

Aquaculture is such a wide and diverse industry, we had to do a second episode! This week, we talk to aquaculture professionals in the oyster world, and those who promote the aquaculture industry, about how COVID-19 has impacted their industry. This episode features interviews with: J.T. Mckissack - Sales manager at Evans Meats & Seafood Gardner Douglass - Nationally ranked oyster shucker and host of the Oyster Ninja podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/oyster-ninja-podcast/id1308780989) Steve Hedlund - Communications & Events Manager at Global Aquaculture Alliance Julie Qiu - Oyster Sommelier and Founder of In a Half Shell Blog (www.inahalfshell.com) This week's music is "Green Leaves" by Jason Shaw, available at the Free Music Archive (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jason_Shaw/Audionautix_Acoustic/GREEN_LEAVES_____________2-15). *Episode correction: Australis is actually an American company HQ'd in Massachusetts that operates a single-source, vertically integrated barramundi farm in Central Vietnam. We love to hear your feedback. Follow the Coastal Routes Project www.twitter.com/@Coastal_Routes Philip Loring www.twitter.com/@ConserveChange Hannah Harrison www.twitter.com/@fishpeopleplace Emily De Sousa www.twitter.com/@emilyseaside If you have a story to share with us, send us an email at [email protected].

In this episode, we explore the world of aquaculture and hear from oyster farmers and First Nation hatchery operators and fish stewards about how COVID-19 has impacted their aquaculture facilities. In this episode, we talk to: Trey McMillan of Low Country Oysters (https://lowcooysters.com/) Boris Guerrero of Grand Isle Sea Farms (https://www.instagram.com/giseafarms/) Bill Walton at Auburn University (https://sfaas.auburn.edu/bill-walton/) Aaron Pamajewong of Shawanaga First Nation (http://shawanagafirstnation.ca/) and guest co-host Vanessa Cunningham (https://geg.uoguelph.ca/cunningham-vanessa) This week's music is "Which That Is This?" by Doctor Turtle, available at the Free Music Archive (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Doctor_Turtle/Jonahs_Message_for_New_York/Which_That_Is_This). We love to hear your feedback. Follow the Coastal Routes Project www.twitter.com/@Coastal_Routes Philip Loring www.twitter.com/@ConserveChange Hannah Harrison www.twitter.com/@fishpeopleplace Emily De Sousa www.twitter.com/@emilyseaside If you have a story to share with us, send us an email at [email protected].

In this episode, we talk to three other teams of fisheries researchers to learn about how COVID-19 has impacted their work, and the research and findings they've been able to pursue since the beginning of the pandemic. Click these links to read the studies featured in this episode: 1. Alternative seafood networks during COVID-19 by Stoll et al. 2020 (preprint): https://ecoevorxiv.org/kuzwq/ 2. Adaptation and resilience of fishers in the northeast USA during COVID-19 by Smith et al. 2020 (preprint): https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/z3v2h/ 3. Remote sensing of fisheries in Ghana by Okyere et al. 2020 (preprint): https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-39872/v1/83ece780-383d-43d9-afbe-953d07c32ce2.pdf 4. Impacts of COVID-19 on Commercial Fisheries Workers by Sorensen et al. 2020: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1059924X.2020.1815617?journalCode=wagr20 In this episode, we talked to: Dr. Sarah Smith at Rutgers University (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sarah_Smith63) Dr. Isaac Okyere at the University of Cape Coast (https://acecor.ucc.edu.gh/personnel/dr-isaac-okyere) Mr. Bernard Ekumah at the University of Cape Coast (https://ccm.ucc.edu.gh/personnel/mr-bernard-ekumah) Dr. Raymond Babanawo at the University of Rhode Island Dr. Julie Sorensen at the Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety (www.necenter.org) Rebecca Weil at the Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety (www.necenter.org) This week's music is "Roads that Burned our Boots" by Jahzzar, available at the free music archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/Blinded_by_dust/Roads_that_burned_our_boots We love to hear your feedback. Follow the Coastal Routes Project www.twitter.com/@Coastal_Routes Philip Loring www.twitter.com/@ConserveChange Hannah Harrison www.twitter.com/@fishpeopleplace Emily De Sousa www.twitter.com/@emilyseaside If you have a story to share with us, send us an email at [email protected].

In this episode, we take a visit down to the shore to hear stories about working waterfronts, and the important role they play in supporting coastal livelihoods and keeping seafood on our plates. In this episode, we talk to: Monique Coombs of the Maine Coast Fisherman's Association (www.mainecoastfishermen.org/) Melissa Collier of West Coast Wild Scallops (www.wildscallops.ca) Anthony Cobb of Fogo Island Fish (www.fogoislandfish.ca) Carson Minor of Lincoln Fisheries out of Port Colborne, Ontario. For more information on the issue of coastal "grabbing", see here: https://doi.org/10.1080/08920753.2012.677635 and here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40152-017-0062-8 To see photos of the Minor family boat and new unloading situation, look here: https://twitter.com/fishpeopleplace/status/1321082315007791107?s=19 To learn more about working waterfronts, visit the SeaGrant Working Waterfronts project page: https://seagrant.noaa.gov/News/PID/468/evl/0/TagID/937/TagName/Working-Waterfronts This week's music is "Move-Out" by David Suzuki, available at https://davidsuzuki.bandcamp.com/ . We love to hear your feedback. Follow the Coastal Routes Project www.twitter.com/@Coastal_Routes Philip Loring www.twitter.com/@ConserveChange Hannah Harrison www.twitter.com/@fishpeopleplace Emily De Sousa www.twitter.com/@airplaneavocado If you have a story to share with us, send us an email at [email protected].

In this episode, we hear stories from one of North America's major northern rivers - the Yukon. In this episode, we talk to: Dennis Zimmermann, fish and wildlife consultant in Yukon Territory, Canada (https://bigfish-littlefish.ca/who-we-are/) Elizabeth MacDonald, working on the Yukon Salmon Sub-Committee (https://yssc.ca/) Dr. Stephanie Quinn-Davidson, working on the Yukon Inter-tribal Fish Commission (https://www.tananachiefs.org/) This week's music is "Jam Tomorrow" by Dr. Turtle, available on the Free Music Archive (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Doctor_Turtle/Will_Play_Wonderwall_For_Food/Todays_Special_Jam_Tomorrow). GoFundMe to support dog teams along the Yukon: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-yukon-river-sled-dogs-through-the-winter?utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet We love to hear your feedback. Follow the Coastal Routes Project www.twitter.com/@Coastal_Routes Philip Loring www.twitter.com/@ConserveChange Hannah Harrison www.twitter.com/@fishpeopleplace Emily De Sousa www.twitter.com/@airplaneavocado If you have a story to share with us, send us an email at [email protected].

In this episode, we partner with folks from Future of Fish to explore stories of small-scale fisheries in Latin America. In this episode, we talk to: Marah Hardt, Laura Fernández Cascán, and Chris Giordano of Future of Fish (FutureofFish.org) Edwin Houghton, fisherman and intermediary in Peru Manuel Ray Purisaca, fisherman in Peru Walter Olaya, Fisheries plant owner in Peru Ines Lopez, Catalyst for Change, COBI Mexico (cobi.org.mx) This week's music is "Latin Heat" by Vincent Tone, Licensed through PremiumBeat.com We love to hear your feedback. Follow the Coastal Routes Project www.twitter.com/@Coastal_Routes Philip Loring www.twitter.com/@ConserveChange Hannah Harrison www.twitter.com/@fishpeopleplace Emily De Sousa www.twitter.com/@airplaneavocado If you have a story to share with us, send us an email at [email protected].

This week, we are taking a little break from our normally scheduled fish stories to focus on the more pressing matter of social justice. Specifically, we use this episode to highlight podcasts made by Black, Indigenous, and POC creators. We hope you will take some time this week to listen to their messages and stories. Black Lives Matter. Featured Podcasts: Coffee and Quaq (www.coffeeandquaq.com) Oyster Ninja Podcast (https://oysterninja.libsyn.com/) How to Save a Planet (https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet) Thunder Bay (https://www.canadalandshow.com/shows/thunder-bay/) Food Is Not Bae (https://www.drebony.com/foodisnotbaepodcast/) Métis in Space (http://www.metisinspace.com/) Music for this episode was "Raising Hell" by David Suzuki (https://davidsuzuki.bandcamp.com/).