Speak Up For The Ocean Blue
Marine-science and conservation conversations connecting ocean issues with policy, careers and public action.
- Host
- Andrew Lewin
- Published by
- Speak Up For Blue
- Topic
- Oceans & Blue Economy
- Format
- Interview
- Orientation
- Sustainability
- Themes
- Resilience, Nature Positive
- Made for
- Professional / Practitioner, General Public, Policymaker / Public Sector
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22 Oct 2026 · 15 min
Ships Without License Plates: The Dark Fleet Behind Fishmeal
In a single day in March 2024, Gambian navy officers arrested eight industrial trawlers. Seven were fishing in waters reserved for local canoes, four were using illegal nets, and every one had switched off its tracking beacon. That one patrol shows a problem playing out across the global ocean. About three in four industrial fishing vessels are not publicly tracked, and many of the boats supplying the fishmeal that feeds farmed fish are among the hardest to see. In this episode of How to Protect the Ocean, Andrew Lewin follows the boats that catch the fish behind fish feed. He covers how vesse
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21 Oct 2026 · 20 min
Whose Dinner Becomes Fish Feed?
On a May morning in 2017, the people of Gunjur in The Gambia woke to find their lagoon had turned red, with dead fish on the surface. Investigators traced the pollution to a fishmeal plant up the road. In this episode, Andrew Lewin follows the feed from West African beaches to farmed salmon fillets in Europe and North America, building on The Outlaw Ocean Project's five-year investigation into the fishmeal industry. Small, oily fish like sardinella and bonga are everyday protein in Senegal and The Gambia. Fishmeal plants buy them in unlimited volumes, outbid the women who have smoked and sold
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20 Oct 2026 · 12 min
The Fish That Feed Your Fish: What Farmed Salmon Really Eat
The family behind the world's largest salmon farming company built a global industry. Now one of its members is asking how it can be sustainable to grind up fish from poorer countries, ship them across the world, and feed them to salmon sold to wealthier shoppers. In episode 2048, Andrew Lewin follows farmed fish from your plate back to the fishmeal boat to answer him. More than half the seafood eaten worldwide now comes from farms, and most of it is fed. Andrew breaks down what fishmeal and fish oil are made of, why roughly a fifth of the global wild catch ends up as feed, and how forage fish