Making a Meal of It — episode 114: Fish & Sustainability

This episode is all fish, fishing, and fisheries, including the fluid and dynamic ways that things change when water and humans meet. Conversations with fisheries researcher Kristen Lowitt and pisciculture entrepreneur Nicolas Paquin net out with a hefty catch of ideas about relationships, livelihoods, ecosystems, and innovation. For the fish edition of ‘Stick This in Your Mouth’, Maxime and David peel the metallic lid off a couple of cans of fish, and we close with art-scientist Christy Spackman’s responses to the Food Questionnaire.

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Episode 114: Fish & Sustainability

Duration: 00:57:39

Guests:

Dr. Kristen Lowitt is a settler scholar working in the School of Environmental Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, on the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabek. She grew up near the Great Lakes and recently returned to the region after many years in Atlantic Canada.

 

Nicolas Paquin is the co-founder and operator of Opercule, an urban fish farm in central Montreal, and part of the Centrale Agricole, a cooperative of agrifood producers and actors working to develop businesses within a circular economy.

 

Christy Spackman is an assistant professor at Arizona State University, where she runs the Sensory Labor(atory), a research-creation collective exploring how to disrupt the status quo of how institutions and infrastructures make sense of sensing. Her recent book, The Taste of Water, which explores the increasing erasure of tastes from drinking water over the 20th century.

 

Also mentioned:

Host/Producer: David Szanto
Music: Story Mode
@makingamealpodcast
makingamealofit.com

segments

00:06:12
Kristen Lowitt on the dynamics of community fisheries

00:21:55
Nicolas Paquin on reimagining fish farming

00:39:07
‘Stick This in Your Mouth!’ (the fish edition)

00:50:24
the Food Questionnaire with Christy Spackman

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