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Ocean careers rarely follow a straight line. In this episode of How to Protect the Ocean , Dave Ebert takes over the host chair to interview Andrew Lewin about his career journey, from marine biology and consulting to podcast...

Ocean sunfish are one of the strangest fish on Earth. They can look like a giant floating dinner plate, drift sideways at the surface, and appear almost lifeless, but their strange behaviour is part of an incredible survival ...

High Seas Treaty | Ocean Governance | Marine Protection How do you protect an ocean that belongs to everyone and no one at the same time? In this episode of How to Protect the Ocean , Andrew Lewin speaks with Rebecca Hubbard ...

The High Seas Treaty took nearly 20 years to negotiate, not because countries disagreed that the ocean matters, but because ocean protection becomes much harder when money, power, access, and fairness are involved. In this ep...

High Seas Treaty implementation is now the real test for ocean conservation. The agreement was historic, but the hardest part was never getting countries to celebrate the deal. The real challenge is what happens after the hea...

High seas protection sounds powerful, but can marine protected areas actually work thousands of kilometres from shore? In this episode of How to Protect the Ocean , Andrew Lewin breaks down why creating protected areas beyond...

Great white sharks have disappeared from some of South Africa’s most famous shark hotspots, but the reason may not be as simple as the popular story suggests. In this episode, Chris Fallows returns to talk about orcas, white ...

High seas conservation matters because nearly half of the planet lies beyond any one country’s control. In this episode of How to Protect the Ocean , we ask a deceptively simple question: who actually owns the ocean? Andrew b...

Forage fish may be small, but they hold Canada’s ocean food web together. In this episode of How to Protect the Ocean , Andrew Lewin speaks with Jack Daly, marine scientist at Oceana Canada, about the new report Little Fish, ...

Forage fish are some of the most important animals in the ocean, but most people barely know they exist. Sardines, anchovies, herring, capelin, and other small schooling fish support whales, seabirds, salmon, tuna, and commer...