Aquaculture

Everyone knows what the third wish is for. A magical apparition appears from a bottle and grants you three wishes. An exciting opportunity, but daunting at the same time. The thrill of having wishes fulfilled…

There’s an abiding truth about conservation–no matter how much we may want it to be about the living world beyond humankind, inevitably it gets down to the things that people do and don’t do. Staggering…

Cross the border at Tijuana and Mexico hits you like a burst of distilled chaos. Ensenada has all the features of a lively fishing port anywhere, with a big dash of Mexican fun thrown-in. Head…

Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) comes in for a boatload of criticism. Its job is to conduct science to predict the potential impacts of possible management strategies in Canadian waters, and then, in…

The Localism idea is almost certainly already on your radar, and probably has been for a while. Proponents have been extolling the virtues of farm-to-table, independent producers, and the virtues of the farmer’s market for…

I arrived at Salmon Coast Field Station with one wet leg. Chris was polite enough not to mention it. Launching the rowing boat that I used to get from Billy’s place to the Station had…

In our last exchange before I got on the boat to leave Billy’s place, he told me that I was “by far the worst” interviewer he had ever met. I don’t doubt this, not least…