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Surf & Turf: a seafood justice 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.
Episodes
28 episodes
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 as a "transition" energy, but in reality it i...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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30:30
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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 (Greenpeace USA) discusses the conditions that have ...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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41:20
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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 Texas-Louisiana border. Follow Shannon'...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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28:46
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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. Amal is usually defending migrant workers, who a...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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31:00

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 food system and building solidarities across...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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35:02

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: www.fishingpartnershi...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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35:34

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 community impacts of the commodification of fishing r...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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38:30
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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 tirelessly in the struggle for racial, economic, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:42:45
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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 aims to address the graying of the fleet. Joshu...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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30:39
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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 Fishermen's Alliance are out to address the "gr...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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38:21

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 his research on--as well as his personal exper...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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42:49

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 rights in New Bedford, America's...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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26:16

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 shares his personal experience with a privatizatio...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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36:30

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 oil and gas industry, intersectional impacts...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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43:04

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 of rapid privatization of public beaches and ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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51:37

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. Helena Island for a golf course and resort. Gu...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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30:50

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 commodification of fishing access rights, an...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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42:21

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 while supporting community leadership and avo...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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33:12

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 inaccessibility for local communities, and t...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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28:27

SPECIAL: Adrián Ventura, seafood processing worker justice (English translation)
Adrián Ventura is the Executive Director of the Centro Comunitario de Trabajadores (CCT) in New Bedford and a leading voice for worker justice in the seafood processing sector. Adrián talks about the injustices seafood processing workers are fa...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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40:01

Dave Love, seafood waste
Professor Dave Love shares his research on when, where, and how much seafood is wasted in the U.S. and his tips for how we can each reduce seafood waste in our own homes, as well as systemic changes that are needed. With his colleagues at the J...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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26:42

Peleke Flores, restoring an ancient Hawaiian fishpond
Peleke Flores is piecing together the puzzle of ancient Hawaiian fishponds, which were a vital part of the integrated Hawaiian food and cultural system for centuries, before colonization interrupted and threatened to destroy Hawaiian foodways. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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29:26

SPECIAL: Will Sennott, investigative reporting on seafood processing in New Bedford
Will Sennott is an investigative reporter at the New Bedford Light and ProPublica. He joins us for our special mini-series on the recent layoffs and federal investigations into retaliation at seafood processing plants in New Bedford, one of the...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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23:06

Alice Howard, seafood for culture & community
Alice Howard is the founder and Executive Director of Sunrise Forever, Inc, a non-profit in Providence, Rhode Island serving the Liberian community. This is part two of our two-part series on a seafood donation program in Rhode Island, created ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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23:43
