Colles Stowell, founder and president of the One Fish Foundation, joined the Marine Fish Conservation Network for an online Waterside Chat on May 30, 2024. Colles and host Tom Sadler discussed:

• How our seafood system has changed from mostly local or domestic to mostly imported in a few short decades
• How we've become so dependent on an industrialized food system that we don't know where our food is coming from
• The power of One Fish Foundation's Know Your Fish dinners, which connect seafood consumers with the people who catch their food and start people on the path to owning their relationship with seafood
• How One Fish Foundation goes to schools, including bringing a lobster trap to a kindergarten class
• Why "good, clean and fair" should be a sustainable-seafood mantra
• The important role of chefs in the seafood conversation
• How consolidation in the seafood-distribution industry hurts local fishermen
• And much, much more!

IN THIS EPISODE:

• One Fish Foundation

MORE ABOUT COLLES:

Colles Stowell's love of fish, fishing and food started early. From the Louisiana bayous of his youth, he moved on to New Hampshire's lakes and rivers and trout streams, world-class salmon rivers in Canada, and bonefish flats in the Bahamas. Along the way, he discovered a passion both for local seafood and for writing.

Stowell's journalism career includes writing for The Boston Globe, United Press International and New Hampshire Public Radio. He began covering sustainable fisheries and seafood in 2011, and he now focuses on issues ranging from privatization of our oceans to the devastating impact of the proposed Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska.

Of the One Fish Foundation, Colles says, "Starting the Foundation is the confluence of my career and personal passions. My deep-seated interest in fisheries and in striking the right balance to support well-managed fisheries, transparent, local seafood systems, and healthy oceans for future generations drives One Fish Foundation."

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Mark Titus joined the Marine Fish Conservation Network for a Waterside Chat on March 26, 2024. Mark's journey from fly-fishing guide in Alaska's Southeast to founder of Eva's Wild is a story of passion for salmon and the future of the planet. Mark wrote and directed The Breach and The Wild, two influential films about salmon and the fight to protect Alaska's Bristol Bay. His third film, The Turn, shines a light on the "twin-towers of imperative action" for salmon survival: permanent protection of Bristol Bay and removal of the lower four Snake River dams.

Mark and host Tom Sadler sailed through a wide range of topics, including:

• How a Snoopy rod & reel led Mark to a life of salmon
• How he started at the bottom of the film world to learn how to create his own movies
• Why he considers our destruction of salmon habitat as a breach of our contract with nature (hence the title of his first film)
• Ongoing threats to salmon habitat in Alaska, including more litigation over Pebble Mine and toxic mining chemicals leaching into waters in Canada and flowing into the U.S.
• How Eva's Wild, his salmon-distribution company, grew out of a food truck that accompanied his film screenings and featured wild Alaska salmon
• How the company gives part of its profits to Indigenous-led efforts to protect and restore salmon habitat, supporting a sustainable economy based on a regenerative resource
• The words of Indigenous leader Billy Frank Jr., who said, "As the salmon go, we go"
• And, of course, much more!

In this episode:

• Connect with Eva's Wild: https://evaswild.com/pages/connect
• Links to Mark's projects, including YouTube links for The Breach and The Wild: https://linktr.ee/markdtitus

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The Marine Fish Conservation Network’s Waterside Chat series connects people who depend on healthy oceans and fisheries with the issues that directly affect them and their communities. Each episode the Network’s Deputy Director Tom Sadler talks with different guests about ocean policy and fisheries management topics. He engages them in genuine and thoughtful conversations about what policy decisions mean for people’s livelihoods, communities, recreation, and coastal ways of life.

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SalmonState's Melanie Brown joined the Marine Fish Conservation Network for an online Waterside Chat on January 23rd, 2024. Melanie fishes commercially in Bristol Bay in Alaska, the fourth generation of her family to make a living on the water. In her role as outreach director at SalmonState, Melanie builds spheres of influence to address marine policy challenges. In a conversation that started with a poem and ended with a song, Melanie and host Tom Sadler talked about:

• The status of the Pebble Mine fight, which now moves to a federal district court, though Melanie hopes for an eventual legislative solution
• How she was born into a fishing family, with her great-great grandfather still fishing when she started at ten years old (she got her permit from him when he retired) and her children following her
• Her work with SalmonState, which grew out of Trout Unlimited's original organizing against Pebble Mine and now covers other issues in the Bering Sea and waters around Alaska, particularly bycatch
• How the Pebble Fight brought together sport fishing interests, commercial fishing interests and Alaska's First People around protecting Bristol Bay
• How mining development in Canada threatens U.S. waters, because "everything flows downstream"
• The status of Magnuson-Stevens reauthorization, plus the work to derail a late Trump administration rule that would open 28 million acres of land to mining and oil & gas exploration
• How wild salmon and other species including caribou play a big role in feeding people in Alaska, particularly the state's First People

And much, much more!

Mentioned in this Episode:

• SalmonState: https://salmonstate.org/
• Help keep protections in place for over 28 million acres: https://www.alaskalands.org/take-action
• About the Magnuson-Stevens Act and its bipartisan tradition: https://conservefish.org/healthy-oceans/magnuson-stevens-act-upholding-a-legacy-of-success/

Watch more Waterside Chats or subscribe to the podcast: https://conservefish.org/resources/waterside-chat/

The Marine Fish Conservation Network’s Waterside Chat series connects people who depend on healthy oceans and fisheries with the issues that directly affect them and their communities. Each episode the Network’s Deputy Director Tom Sadler talks with different guests about ocean policy and fisheries management topics. He engages them in genuine and thoughtful conversations about what policy decisions mean for people’s livelihoods, communities, recreation, and coastal ways of life.

Join the Network's email list to learn about future Waterside Chats: https://conservefish.org/join-our-email-list/