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  • Swim Drink Fish and President Mark Mattson

    Swim Drink Fish and President Mark Mattson
    2025/05/05
    President of Swim Drink Fish Canada and former Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, Mark Mattson has over 35 years of legal advocacy experience devoted to protecting the Great Lakes. With so much turmoil south of the border about to impact Great Lakes water quality, we thought it was time to reconnect with Mark for a water health check. Sometimes wisdom and a big picture focus are just the thing for regaining perspective, and Mark is exactly who we need to help make sense of everything that’s going on. Listen now on The Blue Fish Radio Show.
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    46 分
  • Salmon Fishing Closures and the BC Recreational Fishing Association

    Salmon Fishing Closures and the BC Recreational Fishing Association
    2025/04/28
    President Mark Roberts and Vice President Gayle Gordon of the BC Recreational Fishing Association are Lawrence’s guests on The Blue Fish Radio Show. Unfortunately, more recreational fishing closures have been announced for BC salmon anglers, and the BC Recreational Fishing Association and many others are questioning their scientific validity. Recently published research by DFO on vulnerable Chinook Salmon captures is one such report. Listen and find out why angler associations across BC are coming together to move forward with the implementation of the fundamentals that make selective fishing a reality.
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    40 分
  • Last Boat on the Lake with Hannah Harrison

    Last Boat on the Lake with Hannah Harrison
    2025/03/09
    Dr. Hannah Harrison is an assistant professor at the Marine Affairs Program, Dalhousie University, and the creator of the new documentary “Last Boat on the Lake”. Dr. Harrison grew up in Alaska where she witnessed first-hand the salmon fishery and then moved to Ontario where she studied the Great Lakes commercial fishery at Guelph University. The title of the documentary has more to do with the decline of commercial fishing on the Great Lakes, but for reasons you might find surprising. The Great Lakes represent the most valuable freshwater fishery in the world, and it’s also thriving, so why the decline? Listen to Dr. Harrison on The Blue Fish Radio Show in conversation with Lawrence Gunther and just maybe you will find yourself pursuing a brand new-to-you career path that dates back thousands of years. Visit Dr. Harrisons website to watch the documentary Last Boat on the Lake: WWW.HannahHarrison.Ca
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    56 分
  • Embattled Atlantic Canada Striped Bass and Jeff Wilson

    Embattled Atlantic Canada Striped Bass and Jeff Wilson
    2025/03/09
    Jeff Wilson is the co-founder of the highly successful Striper Cup tournament series that takes place in New Brunswick along the Miramichi River. A native fish stock that has struggled through two near extinction events in the past 100 years, the species is once again under assault. Jeff is now heading up a push to conduct a legal review to stop the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ mass cull of striped bass. Listen as Jeff explains why he and many others throughout Atlantic Canada have launched advocacy campaigns to protect Striped Bass on The Blue fish Radio show. To help save the species donate to Jeff Wilson’s Go Fund Me campaign and sign the petition.
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    20 分
  • The Fish Thief and other Threats to the Great Lakes

    The Fish Thief and other Threats to the Great Lakes
    2025/02/15
    Lindsey Haskin is the Writer/Producer/Director of the new documentary “The Fish Thief”, now available for home viewing. The documentary is Lindsey’s second film about the great lakes, the difference being this time he focusses on the role scientists played to identify the cause of the near total collapse of native fishes throughout many of the Great Lakes, and how scientists eventually discovered a solution responsible for restoring the Great Lakes as the most valuable freshwater fishery in the world. Lindsey and host Lawrence Gunther also discuss emerging threats that could un-do the hard work of so many. watch the documentary at: www.thefishthief.com.
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    59 分
  • Dr Marc Gaden and Great Lakes Fishery Commission Priorities

    Dr Marc Gaden and Great Lakes Fishery Commission Priorities
    2025/01/06
    Dr. Marc Gaden is the new Executive Secretary of the Great Lakes Fishery commission and the guest on The Blue fish Radio Show. Marc speaks with host Lawrence Gunther about the Commission’s effort to catch up on Sea Lamprey control following Covid 19 shut-downs, the move to strengthen knowledge sharing ties with Great Lakes indigenous communities, efforts to widen the net to include even more Great Lakes stakeholders, the important stewardship role of the recreational fishing sector, balancing new perspectives with historical data, addressing invasive species and improving fish habitat, and the general over-all improvement of fish stocks throughout the Great Lakes. Marc also discusses how the value of the world’s most valuable freshwater fishery is defined, and where still more data is needed to fully understand the connection between fish and coastal communities. The two also discuss the importance of environmental groups, commercial, indigenous and recreational fishing interests collaborating on data collection, conservation, advocacy, and just as importantly, promoting and celebrating the bounty of the Great Lakes.
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    54 分
  • An All Too Clear look into the Great Lakes

    An All Too Clear look into the Great Lakes
    2024/12/13
    The TV Ontario “All Too Clear” 3-part series looks into the Great Lakes using underwater drones. The series Producers explain how they were able to reveal the quadrillions of tiny invasive mussels that are re-engineering the ecosystem of North America's Great Lakes at a scale not seen since the glaciers. While the consequences for nature and people are severe, the loss of life has had an extraordinary side effect: it’s made the lakes far clearer than they’ve ever been before.
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    41 分
  • Nova Scotia Swordfish Harpoon Fishery Goes Recreational

    Nova Scotia Swordfish Harpoon Fishery Goes Recreational
    2024/08/22
    Holly Isnor is the Marine Campaign Coordinator with the Ecology Action Centre in Nova Scotia, and our guest on The Blue fish Radio Show. Holly will explain why the 184 fishers in Nova Scotia that hold swordfish harpoon licenses are interested in adding the option of filling their quota using hook-and-line, and bringing along paying customers interested in reeling in swordfish that can reach weights of 500 kilograms. Find out what it’s going to take to open up this new big game recreational fishing opportunity.
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    24 分