Feeding The Future : The Ocean Farmers | Shawn Robinson | Escaped Sapiens #56

What is the future of our oceans? On this episode of the Podcast I speak with Dr. Shawn Robinson about marine ecology, aquaculture, and the politics and economics of what ends up on your plate. Shawn is a marine ecologist who did his graduate work at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia on the giant Pacific octopus (MSc) and at the University of British Columbia on biological oceanography off Vancouver Island (PhD). He began his career as a research scientist in 1988 with the Dept. Fisheries and Oceans at the Biological Station in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada, one of Canada’s oldest marine research stations. Over the last 35 years, he has been actively engaged in applied ecological research on a wide range of marine invertebrate species such as blue mussels, sea scallops, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, soft-shell clams, lobsters, marine worms, sea lice and marine bacteria. His research team specifically studied the natural ecological processes by which these animals interact with and utilise their environment so that better and more sustainable culture techniques could be developed for the evolution of food production in today’s society (such as the concept of integrated multi-trophic aquaculture or IMTA). Most recently, he and other colleagues have been studying sea lice ecology in relation to salmon farming, biodiversity in marine bacteria through eDNA genomic approaches in response to organic impacts, and wild-farmed interactions between natural ecosystems and salmon aquaculture farms. He currently lives in St. Andrews enjoying the retirement pleasures that a coastal town in the Canadian Maritimes provides.
These conversations are supported by the Andrea von Braun foundation (www.avbstiftung.de/), as an exploration of the rich, exciting, connected, scientifically literate, and (most importantly) sustainable future of humanity. The views expressed in these episodes are my own and those of my guests. This episode looks at the sustainable use of our oceans.
0:00 - Introduction
1:30 - Ecology, why and what?
5:14 - Spawning.
12:25 - How have the oceans changed.
18:17 - Scientist in a boat.
20:55 - Is the public well informed?
25:55 - Dolphin safe labels.
33:10 - Tearing up the Savana.
39:10 - Lobster explosion.
45:25 - How productive could the oceans be?
55:00 - Rewilding the ocean.
59:25 - What are the pigs, sheep, and cows of the ocean?
1:06:50 - Are scientists powerful enough?
1:13:50 - Should all of the ocean be owned?
1:19:00 - Ethics and ocean battery farming?
1:27:40 - Health benefits of eating fish.
1:31:05 - Fish intelligence.
1:33:50 - Diving with the giant octopus.
1:38:40 - The future of aquaculture.
1:45:30 - Carbon footprint of seafood.
1:51:00 - Growing seafood on land.
1:58:20 - Submarine paradise.
2:04:04 - Top predators and the meaning of life.
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