Come for the Impact, Stay for the People: Inside Surfrider Canada
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Speak Up For The Ocean Blue
Speak Up For The Ocean Blue raises awareness of the variety of ocean science and conservation projects conducted all around the world. It educates you, the listener, on the different Ocean C...
Episodes
20 of 2,036 episodesOne Promise: How a Postcard Changed Behaviour for a Year
Picture a kid at an aquarium in Durban, standing in front of the penguins with a pen and a postcard. She writes one sentence, a promise to c...
Why Saying "Fishing Is Bad" Backfires
Picture a woman on a beach before sunrise, sorting the night's catch to feed her kids. Now picture a campaign poster that says "Stop eating...
The Reef That Built Itself Back: Coral Recovery After Bleaching
In 2023, a marine heat wave settled over Palmyra Atoll, a remote ring of coral islands about 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, and stayed for mor...
Why Nobody Can Name a Marine Protected Area
Quick test: name one marine protected area in your country. If you came up blank, you're in good company. When an aquarium in Durban, South...
Can You Name One Marine Protected Area? Dr. Judy Mann-Lang on MPA Day
Most people can't name a single marine protected area in their own country. Dr. Judy Mann-Lang found that out the hard way when she asked aq...
What the Sustainable Seafood Label Can't See
You bought the fish with the green check mark. Investigators with The Outlaw Ocean Project then checked the supply chains behind hundreds of...
Ships Without License Plates: The Dark Fleet Behind Fishmeal
In a single day in March 2024, Gambian navy officers arrested eight industrial trawlers. Seven were fishing in waters reserved for local can...
Whose Dinner Becomes Fish Feed?
On a May morning in 2017, the people of Gunjur in The Gambia woke to find their lagoon had turned red, with dead fish on the surface. Invest...
The Fish That Feed Your Fish: What Farmed Salmon Really Eat
The family behind the world's largest salmon farming company built a global industry. Now one of its members is asking how it can be sustain...
What Your Farmed Salmon Ate: Inside a Five-Year Fishmeal Investigation
More than half the seafood eaten on Earth now comes from fish farms, and most of those farmed fish are raised on fishmeal made from wild-cau...
How to Read the Seafood Counter Like a Marine Biologist
Picture a big sign over the seafood counter promising sustainable fishing, with a fish every independent guide says to avoid sitting on ice...
Is Bottom Trawling Always Bad? It Depends Where
Off the south coast of England, about 100 kilometres out, sits Haig Fras, a granite reef covered in jewel anemones and cup corals. For years...
The Trapdoor That Saves Sea Turtles From Shrimp Nets
A Kemp's ridley sea turtle, the most endangered sea turtle on Earth, gets swept into a shrimp trawl. It hits a metal grid, slides out throug...
The Cod Came Back: What a Fishery Collapse Teaches Us About Overfishing
Five centuries ago, explorers off Newfoundland described cod so plentiful that a weighted basket lowered into the sea came back full. By Jul...
How to Choose Sustainable Seafood
You want to eat seafood the right way. Then you hit the seafood counter and face a wall of labels, a sign promising "sustainable practices,"...
Slow Down for Whales: How Global Shipping Learned to Share the Ocean
Blue whales can't dodge ships. When scientists tracked blue whales alongside cargo ships off Southern California, the whales responded in ju...
When Whale Food Moves: Climate Change, Crab Traps, and Pop-Up Gear
In 2014, a patch of unusually warm water nicknamed "the blob" settled off the west coast of North America. The cold, food-rich water that no...
The Whale Heart That Beats Twice a Minute
Fill your hands with cold water, hold your breath, and press your face in. Your heart slows within seconds. That reflex lives in every whale...
The Biggest Mouthful: How Blue Whales Eat and Why Krill Matters
A blue whale can swallow a volume of water bigger than its own body in a single gulp. That move, called lunge feeding, is one of the most ex...