Surf & Turf: a seafood justice podcast
Dr. Caroline Ferguson Irlanda
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About This Podcast
Surf & Turf is a seafood justice podcast that dives deep into the complex and often overlooked issues of access, equity, and justice in the U.S. seafood system. From the docks to the dinner plate, seafood supports communities and economies up and down the coasts, but social, political, and environmental conditions pose significant challenges to the health and well-being of the people who rely on fish for their food and livelihoods. Each week, host Dr. Caroline Ferguson speaks with an extraordinary individual working to create a more just seafood system that nourishes us all.
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S4E2 Donella Miller & Elaine Harvey, culture and contamination on the Columbia River
My guests from the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, Donella Miller and Elaine Harvey, discuss the many sources of contamination that threaten the health and culture of the Indigenous…
S4E1 Travis Dardar, fighting LNG in Louisiana
Travis Dardar is an Indigenous and commercial fisherman in Cameron, Louisiana who is fighting not just for his heritage but for the very lives of his loved ones. Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) is marketed…
S3E5 Sari Heidenreich, forced labor in imported seafood
Sari Heidenrich joins guest host Liliana Sierra Castillo to talk about forced labor in seafood. Forced labor is sadly a reality for many people working in imported seafood supply chains. Sari…
S3E4 Shannon Guillot-Wright, providing direct services to fishermen and seafood processing workers in the Gulf of Mexico
Shannon Guillot-Wright, PhD, is working to directly address medical, immigration, and social needs for fishermen and seafood processing workers in precarious, dangerous, and vulnerable jobs at the…
S3E3 Amal Bouhabib, racial and migrant justice on catfish farms
Amal Bouhabib is the Director of Southern Migrant Legal Services and defender of the Black catfish farmworkers who were paid less than white migrant workers from South Africa doing the same work.…
S3E2 Kirby Page & Radhika Sharma, food service worker justice
Kirby Page and Radhika Sharma of Studio ATAO join me to discuss food service and hospitality workers. We talk about the hurdles these workers face to decent working conditions and education about the…
S3E1 J.J. Bartlett, health, safety, and economic security for commercial fishermen
J.J. Bartlett and his organization Fishing Partnership have been supporting the health, safety, and economic security of commercial fishermen since 1997. Visit:…
S2E11 Dr. Rachel Donkersloot, the costs of market-based fishing rights
Dr. Rachel Donkersloot shares her research findings on how market-based fishing rights have disproportionately harmed rural, Indigenous, and low-income fishermen in Alaska. She discusses the…
S2E10 Mary Hill, oystering as resistance
It is my great honor to share the oral history of Mary Hill and her late, beloved mother, Marie Hill. Mary is a 7th generation African-American oyster harvester in Chesapeake Bay, who has worked…
S2E9 Joshua Brown, making policy to address the graying of the fleet
Joshua Brown is the environmental literacy and workforce development lead at National Sea Grant in D.C. He joins us to talk about the Young Fishermen's Development Act, a piece of legislation that…
S2E8 Andrea Tomlinson, supporting young fishermen and women
Why aren't young people entering fisheries in the same numbers as generations past? How is this trend impacting coastal communities in New England? Andrea Tomlinson and the New England Young…
S2E7 Tony Sutton, Native American food passage and seafood contamination
Prof. Tony Sutton breaks down the binary between Indigenous and non-Indigenous food, examines the long history of privatization in North America dating back to the Doctrine of Discovery, and shares…
S2E6 Will Sennott, Wall Street & foreign ownership of US fishing rights
Will Sennott is an investigative reporter at The New Bedford Light and ProPublica. Will's explosive reporting has exposed the troubling extent of private equity and foreign ownership of fishing…
S2E5 Brett Tolley, catch shares and the souls of fishing communities
Brett Tolley is an advocate for community-based fisheries, fighting for the next generation of fishermen as the National Program Coordinator for the North American Marine Alliance (NAMA). Brett…
S2E4 BONUS: Brynn Comeaux, resisting displacement and loss in Louisiana
In this special bonus episode with guest host Liliana Sierra Castillo, Brynn Comeaux of the New Orleans Food Policy Action Council discusses the complex relationship between local communities and the…
S2E3 Nicolás Gómez Andújar, seafood sovereignty in Culebra, Puerto Rico
Nico is an organizer, scholar, and sometimes fisherman on his home island of Culebra in Puerto Rico. He share his insights on the limitations and possibilities for seafood sovereignty in the context…
S2E2 Queen Quet, protecting St. Helena Island from development (destructionment)
Queen Quet, Chieftess of Gullah/Geechee Nation, celebrates their victories over a would-be developer (as she says, "destructioneer") attempting to privatize beautiful and culturally significant St.…
S2E1 Danielle Ringer, commodification of fishing access rights and managing for well-being in Kodiak, Alaska
Danielle Ringer is a commercial fisherman and fisheries anthropologist based in Kodiak, Alaska. She shares her firsthand experience and research on the "graying of the fleet" trend, privatization and…
S1E11 BONUS: Bryan Galligan, SJ on faith, solidarity, white saviorism, and justice
For this very special bonus episode, I am joined by Jesuit scholastic Bryan Galligan to discuss how his Catholic faith motivates his work in nutritional and social justice, how to move in solidarity…
S1E10 Season One Recap with Joshua Stoll
Prof. Joshua Stoll and I reflect on themes that emerged from season one, such as the corporatization of our seafood system, the mismatch in our stated national policy goals and the reality of seafood…
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Surf & Turf: a seafood justice podcast has published 29 episodes since March 2023, covering topics in Documentary, News.
Surf & Turf: a seafood justice podcast is currently dormant with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 35m.
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