Welcome to Fishy Work, a podcast on ecologies, labour and fish governance. This is Season 2: Aquaculture vs Capture Fisheries. Since 2022 aquaculture, that’s the breeding and harvesting of fish along with other aquatic organisms has overtaken Capture Fisheries, i.e. fishing in the wild. In this season Alin Kadfak and I meet a smorgasbord of fishy guests who analyse the new normal. In this episode we speak with Marine Cusa , a 2024 Pew Marine Fellow, senior policy advisor Oceana Europe and researcher at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). We speak about her co-authoered paper "The Fish Behind Fish Feed: Rethinking Transparency Using DNA Tools" in which, along with Matilda Binner, Giulia Maiello, Rosalie Dowell and Stefano Mariani, the use of DNA Metabarcoding to uncover what is inside fish feed is analysed. By the end of our conversation with Marine you will better understand where the farmed fish you eat come from and what this farmed fish eat before you eat them.

Welcome to Fishy Work, a podcast on ecologies, labour and fish governance. This is Season 2: Aquaculture vs Capture Fisheries. Since 2022 aquaculture, that’s the breeding and harvesting of fish along with other aquatic organisms has overtaken Capture Fisheries, i.e. fishing in the wild. In this season Alin Kadfak and I meet a smorgasbord of fishy guests who analyse the new normal. In this episode we speak Daniel Pauly, one of the world's most renowned and influential marine biologists and fisheries scientists. He serves as a Professor and the Principal Investigator of the Sea Around Us initiative at the University of British Columbia. By the end of our conversation with Daniel you will have a deeper understanding of the dependences between capture fisheries and aquaculture.

As Season One of Fishy Work comes to an end Alin and Ian look back - or rather listen back - to some of the season highlights.

Welcome to Episode 5 of Fishy Work, Un-romancing the Eco Label! In this episode we dig deeper into seafood eco labels, ask if they cause more harm than good for fishworkers, and explore why it is so difficult to create ethical labels for seafood products. This episode we're going to be speaking with Chris Williams & Katrina Nakamura

Hello and welcome to Fishy Work Episode 4: Union Power

In this episode, we're going to be speaking with Bright Maté Kweku Chai, a former fisher and boatswain on industrial trawls, semi industrial and artisanal vessels. Bright now acts as a local chairman for NUSPAW, the National Union for Sea, Port and Allied Workers in Ghana.

And we're also joined by Vanessa Jaiteh, a senior research scientist at the Centre for Development and Environment at the University of Bern in Switzerland.

Hello and welcome to Fishy Work Episode 3, What happens when people move and refuse? In Fishy Work thus far we've spoken more broadly about why conditions at sea can be so bad, including organized attempts to improve the working lives of fish workers. And we've also spoken about the management of the fish supply chain, including how NGOs have worked with companies, especially with the aim of removing forced labour from their business networks. In this episode, we want to centre on the fish workers, especially migrant workers, including looking into how they migrate and, crucially, what their migration means in social, political, and economic terms. And we have two amazing researchers to help us understand this. Siddharth Chakravarty, a PhD researcher at Queen Mary University of London, and Andrew Lee, assistant professor at the Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University.

We've been thinking about supply chain management, and it's much less abstract that is sounds! It allows is to put people, products, and political invention into one framework, and it allows us to ask the question - when thinking aboutemployment conditions in the fishing industry - is it business as usual? This episode's guests are Miriam Wilhelm, Professor of Sustainable Supply Chain Management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and Andrew Crane, Professor of Business and Society at the University of Bath.

Welcome to the first ever episode of Fishy Work, my name is Ian. Join me this season as we cast off into a sea of trash fish, worker precarity, racism, and labour campaigns to name but a few of the topics we'll find stranded and floating, calling out to have a podcast made about them.

In this episode we’re talking with Melissa Marschke and Peter Vandergeest about what structures working conditions at sea, why it can be so bad, yet why fishing is still meaningful for many fisher folk, how researchers go about researching labour at sea, and what organisations, campaigners and unions are doing to help improve working conditions.