Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast
Podcast & Audio Production
Overseeing the Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast's production, promotion, and strategic growth. Fluid Studios manages podcast development, from concept to publication, ensuring high-quality content that resonates with audiences. We develop social media and content marketing strategies to maximize engagement and reach. By collaborating with the Blue Frontier team, we maintain the podcast's vision, enhance its impact, and leverage analytics to optimize performance, drive continuous improvement, and contribute to the organization's dynamic leadership and innovative solutions.
A refreshing, irreverent dive into the lives, work, and explorations of today’s leading and diverse ocean voices.
Each half-hour episode co-hosted by David Helvarg of Blue Frontier and Vicki Nichols Goldstein of the Inland Ocean Coalition sails through lively discussions with our guests about marine life, culture, and critical issues affecting our rapidly changing seas. Informative, enlightening, and often humorous it is an invaluable resource for anyone passionate about understanding, enjoying, and protecting our salty blue world.
Wild Fish Feeding Farmed Fish
In the latest episode of Rising Tide David Helvarg and Blue Frontier’s Joy Leilei Shih speak with Ben Blankenship, Director of video for the Outlaw Ocean project. Ben was also a field team leader for Outlaw Ocean’s latest global investigative report titled: ‘The Dirty Secret behind the farmed fish you eat.’ That secret of course is the use of small forage fish such as sardines and anchovies from the wild ocean converted into fishmeal to feed salmon, shrimp and other pen raised aquaculture animals in what is now the largest sector of the global seafood industry.
Ben talks about what they found in terms of labor abuse at sea and pollution and illegal operations in and around the processing plants and carcinogenic additives in the meal to keep it from catching fire. He also talks about similar investigative work off the Galapagos and in Antarctic waters. So, dive in with us for a fascinating take on what’s happening to the fish you might put on your plate and a new online tool that can help you learn more.
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You can also listen to Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast on a variety of platforms including Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, Android, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Blubrry, Podchaser, Gaana, the Podcast Index, and Deezer. Additionally, the podcast is broadcast on several radio stations: KGUA Radio (Public Media for the Mendonoma Coast), KWMR (Point Reyes West Marin Community Radio), KGNU & KGNU-FM (Denver & Boulder Community Radio Stations), KKRN (Round Mountain California Listener Supported Radio), & G-TOWN RADIO (Germantown Community Radio, Philadelphia).
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