Today we travel to a future where fisheries collapse, and we turn the ocean into a giant farm.
Guests:
- Amanda Nickson: director of international fisheries at The Pew Charitable Trusts
- Daniel Pauly: professor University of British Columbia, principal investigator at Sea Around Us, author of Vanishing Fish: Shifting Baselines and the Future of Global Fisheries
- Bernard Friedman: founder of Santa Barbara Mariculture
- Tyler Sclodnick: senior scientist, InnovaSea Systems Inc.
- Patricia Majluf: vice president, Peru of Oceana
Further Reading:
- The future of fish
- Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean
- Pacific Bluefin Tuna Stock Remains Highly Depleted, New Science Shows
- Vanishing Fish: Shifting Baselines and the Future of Global Fisheries
- Devoted to Keeping Lobster Divers of Honduras Alive
- Archaeologists land world’s oldest fish hook
- UN Fisheries Report
- Daniel Pauly TED Talk: The ocean’s shifting baseline
- Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services
- Ethical Issues in Aquaculture Production
- Aquaculture environment interactions: Past, present and likely future trends
- Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction
- Mariculture: A global analysis of production trends since 1950
- InnovaSea Mariculture
- China’s aquaculture and the world’s wild fisheries
- Perceptions of wilderness and their application to ocean and coastal waters
- The Last Call for Marine Wilderness?
- ‘‘I know it when I see it’’: Identifying ocean wilderness using a photo-based survey approach
Actors:
- The Snowglobe Narrator: Brent Rose
- Lenny Haywood: Evan Johnson
- Farah Mousterian: Zahra Noorbakhsh, host of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim
- John Jacob Siwa: Joseph Jones
- Juana Aguilar: Tamara Krinsky
- Christina Amity: Angeli R. Fitch
Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky. Special thanks this episode to the Women Audio Mission studios, Maryam Qudus, Stephanie Lopez, The Potluck Podcast studio, the Potluck Podcast Collective and Quincy Surasmith.
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That’s all for this future, come back next time and we’ll travel to a new one.
Flash Forward is a critically acclaimed podcast about the future.
In each episode, host Rose Eveleth takes on a possible (or not so possible) future scenario — everything from the existence of artificial wombs, to what would happen if space pirates dragged a second moon to Earth. What would the warranty on a sex robot look like? How would diplomacy work if we couldn’t lie? Could there ever be a black market for fecal transplants? (Complicated, it wouldn’t, and yes, respectively, in case you’re curious.) By combining audio drama and deep reporting, Flash Forward gives listeners an original and unique window into the future, how likely different scenarios might be, and how to prepare for what might come.
