Episodes
July 22, 2018
SUFB 512: 30th Anniversary of Shark Week Kickoff with Dr. David Shiffman
Shark Week has been running for 29 years and this year will be its 30th year running as it had educated, inspired, scared and trick many people over its tenure. Shark Week seeks to educate and entertain; however, 3 years ago, Discovery (the company...
July 21, 2018
SUFB 511: Speak Up For Blue Facebook Group Works To Help Solve Watersport Incidences With Sea Turtles
One of the great things about the Speak Up For Blue Facebook Group is that people who are facing marine science and conservation problems can post in the group and other people (scientists/conservationists) can provide some advice best on past...
July 20, 2018
SUFB 510: Florida Fish And Wildlife Commission Request Proposals To Limit Land-Based Shark Fisheries
The Florida Fisheries and Wildlife Commission decided in April to consider limiting Land-based shark fisheries occurring along its coasts in order to protect swimmers and sharks alike. The initiation of this policy change came to be because of the...
July 19, 2018
SUFB 509: Scientist Discovers Hermaphrodite Sharks Off East Coast Of India
Alissa Barnes of the Dakshin Foundation discovered 7 hermaphrodite bigeye houndsharks of the East Coast of India at a Port of Odhisa during a survey of fishers. The survey was to determine whether a gear change was the cause of a decrease in sharks...
July 18, 2018
SUFB 508: We Need To Talk About What Happened At A Recent Conference
Conferences in the Marine Science and Conservation fields are super important in sharing information, establishing collaborations, networking for your career and your work; however, conferences for some have been a nightmare that included sexual...
July 17, 2018
SUFB 507: Columbian Army Dispatched To Protect Black Land Crab In Providencia
The Columbian government have dispatches the army to protect migrating Black Land Crabs who travel to the coast from the dry, dense forests on the Island of Providencia to lay eggs and where the larvae develop in the Ocean for a few weeks after which...
July 16, 2018
SUFB 506: Illegal Fishing Detected In Mediterranean MPAs
Oceana has written a report blasting countries such as Italy, France, Malta and Greece for not enforcing fisheries regulations. The report called out Italy, specifically because they allowed over 10,000 hours of trawling in a MPA that was designed to...
July 15, 2018
SUFB 505: Working Toward Decolonizing Marine Conservation
Basten Gokkon wrote a great article on Mongabay News that was an interview with one of the plenary speakers at the International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC5) in Kuching, Malaysia. the presenter is named John Aini, who founded the Ailan...
July 14, 2018
SUFB 504: Nurse Sharks and Common Sense 101
Nurse sharks have been in the news lately, but not for good reasons. There have been two incidents in the recent weeks that have been published where two people have been bitten by nurse sharks. The first person was feeding a nurse shark in...
July 13, 2018
SUFB 503: Whale Watchers Criticize Canadian Government On Orca Viewing Distance of 200m
The Canadian Government recently implemented a 200 m minimum distance for any ship in the area of Orcas. They also chopped the Chinook Salmon quota by 35%. The government is doing this because the Southern Resident Orca population only has 75...
July 12, 2018
SUFB 502: Scott Pruitt Out As EPA Chief Administrator
We all dreamed about this day, but now that Scott Pruitt has resigned as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is it really what we want? As Scott Pruitt leaves office, Andrew Wheeler replaces him. Unfortunately, they are the same...
July 11, 2018
SUFB 501: 10 Years of SciComm with Dr. Andrew Thaler Part 2
The Second Part of my conversation with Andrew Thaler on the last 10 years of Marine Science and Conservation Communication. If you are someone who has been doing SciComm in the same field, how have you noticed the field has evolved? Become par...
July 10, 2018
SUFB 500: 500th Episode and 10 Years Of SciComm with Dr. Andrew Thaler
500 EPISODES!!! I can't believe the time has finally come where the Speak Up For Blue Podcast has reached 500 episodes!!! What do I do to celebrate? I announce that I will be posting from 3 times a week to 7 times a week. More frequency will result in...
July 9, 2018
SUFB 499: Global Whale Shark Study Reveals Preferred Habitat
A global whale shark study that used bathymetry (depth profiles), as a way to identify potential favourite habitats, along with whale shark sightings revealed a preferred habitat for the largest fish in the sea. Whale sharks are often found in...
July 8, 2018
SUFB 498: Government Of Canada Prioritizing Right Whale Protection Over Fishing Community?
Last year, the North Atlantic Right Whale population lost 19 individuals in the US and Canada due to ship strikes and/or fish gear entanglement. It was a surprise in Canada as Right Whales sightings were rare in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; however, with...
July 7, 2018
SUFB 497 Season 2 Episode 12: Reflections On IMCC5
After 2 years of preparing, making travel arrangements, preparing presentations, renting podcasting equipment, getting vaccinations and finally, attending the conference...IMCC5 is officially over. Before I spend my time looking at planning for...
July 6, 2018
SUFB 496 Season 2 Episode 11: Helping To Manage The Lionfish Invasion Through Jewelry with Phil Karp
Lionfish have invaded most, if not all, of the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and parts of the Southeast Atlantic Ocean. They have become a huge problem for fishing communities and tourist industries. There are many people, organizations and...
July 5, 2018
SUFB 495 Season 2 Episode 10: Plastic Pollution Change with Dr. Judith Weis
Dr. Judith Weis and I got to sit down face to face at IMCC5 to discuss an ongoing conversation we have had for about a month online. The conversation centred around plastic pollution and the way we are trying to deal with the waste we produce with...
July 4, 2018
SUFB 494 Season 2 Episode 9: Part 2 COMPASS The Art Of Story Telling
This is Part 2 of the COMPASS "The Art Of Story Telling" Workshop at IMCC5, where 9 people attended a pre-conference workshop on how to communicate their own science and conservation to the public. I talk to more of the workshop attendees about...
July 1, 2018
SUFB 493 Season 2 Episode 8: Part 1 COMPASS The Art Of Story Telling
COMPASS is a communication organization that helps scientists tell the public their research through engaging ways. They held a 2-day pre-conference workshop at IMCC5 with 9 delegates. I had a chance to sit down with some of the delegates to discuss...
June 30, 2018
SUFB 492 Season 2 Episode 7: Make For The Planet With Alex Dehgan
Alex Deghan, Founding Director of , joins me on the podcast at IMCC5 in Kuching, Malaysia. Alex uses Conservation X Labs to create competitions in different parts of the world to put ideas into practice that solve conservation challenges. He...
June 29, 2018
SUFB 491 Season 2 Episode 6: Part 2 - MPA Standards with Nina Bohla and Lance Morgan
As I continue to post from IMCC5, I had the chance to sit down with Nina Bohla (UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre) and Lance Morgan (Marine Conservation Institute) to discuss the IUCN Marine Protected Area (MPA) Standards. Both...
June 28, 2018
SUFB 490 Season 2 Episode 5: IUCN MPA Standards With Angelo Villagomez
The IUCN has launched a new document about Marine Protected Area (MPA) Standards to help redefine what an MPA is. Why is this important? It's because the world needs to protect 10% of biodiversity by the year 2020 according to the member countries who...
June 27, 2018
SUFB 489 Season 2 Episode 4: Project Seagrass Team Getting Seagrass Part of the Conservation Conversation
Today's episode of the Speak Up For Blue Podcast has me talking to 3/4 of the Project Seagrass Team. We discuss all things seagrass and how the team is trying to get Seagrass part of the Conservation Conversation. Seagrass are important ecosystems as...