Women in North American Aquaculture spotlights influential women who are navigating the waters of a highly skilled and highly specialized sector. Business executives, entrepreneurs, industry leaders and aquaculture experts share their experience in creating their own path to professional success. Sponsored by BioMar.
Lauren Enz: Connecting sustainable seafood producers with North American buyers
Lauren Enz describes Searenity Seafoods as her passion project. Having worked in different parts of the seafood industry including sales, purchasing and product development, she saw a need for a consulting network to help farmers, producers, and harvesters connect with corporate buyers in the North American market, hence the birth of Searenity Seafoods.
30 Jul 2024
Amy Stone: Starting a woman-owned aquaculture business
In this episode, Amy Stone shares her journey from fisheries biologist to aquaculture entrepreneur, discussing how she started her own woman-owned business and the solutions it provides to the aquaculture industry. She also talks about her insights on the growth and direction of the aquaculture sector.
10 Jul 2024
Juli-Anne Russo: Educating on aquaculture in the Caribbean
The Caribbean Aquaculture Education & Innovation Hub is a project that brings together science, technology, business, entrepreneurship, and policy to address the need for the improvement of aquaculture in the Caribbean. Aquaculture scientist, Juli-Anne Russo founded this education hub to help with education and information sharing.
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25 Mar 2024
Julie Kuchepatov: promoting gender equality in seafood
While the COVID-19 pandemic put a halt to a lot of things including, Julie Kuchepatov’s job, she turned lemons into lemonade by founding Seafood and Gender Equality (SAGE). SAGE is now three years old, and it continues to develop initiatives to support companies that need to address gender issues internally.
1 Sept 2023
Emily De Sousa: Communicating seafood online
As a social media content creator, Emily De Sousa's mission is to change the way people think about global food systems and spread the message that the future of food is 'blue' through her influencer's brand, Seaside with Emily (http://www.seasidewithemily.com/). In this episode, De Sousa discusses the insights of a content creator's life. Combining her scientific background in fisheries with her expertise in social marketing and digital communication, she explains what it takes to educate the public about aquaculture and sustainable seafood.
9 Aug 2023
Sarah Curry: using film to educate on aquaculture
In this episode, Sarah Curry, founder and executive director of Sereia Films, discusses the story of her non-profit film production company that has made its mission to share the stories of the industry and to promote aquaculture through short-form documentaries.
“Eating Out: The Hunt for Sustainable Seafood,” (https://sereiafilms.org/eating-out-the-hunt-for-sustainable-seafood/) is Sereia Films’ ongoing series, covering farms in South Florida that farm fish sustainably.
20 Jul 2023
Michelle Franze: Inspiring young salmon farmers in B.C.
In her current role as manager of communications, partnerships and community for the BC Salmon Farmers Association, Michelle Franze has used her expertise to effectively communicate the benefits and importance of aquaculture to a wide audience. In this episode, Franze tells us about the Young Salmon Farmers in BC, a group she co-founded that aims to be an inclusive body to sustains a positive dialogue about ocean-based salmon farming in rural coastal Vancouver Island communities.
14 Mar 2023
Tracy Fanara: A modern take on science communication
While Dr. Tracy Fanara’s day job as the US Coastal Modeling Manager for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is to advance our understanding of our earth systems and threats to humans, she spends her “spare time” as the science communicator Inspector Planet (https://inspectorplanet.com/). Her goal is to bridge the gap between scientists and the public as a strategy to spark behavioural change towards more sustainable lifestyles. Through this, Fanara has learned the “do’s” and “don’ts” of science communication and is on a mission to share what she has learned with other scientists.
31 Jan 2023
Debbie Plouffe: Making genome editing in aquatic species a commercial reality
Genome editing is a technology that faces several challenges. Debbie Plouffe, co-founder and associate vice-president of business development for the Center for Aquaculture Technologies (CAT), discusses in this episode these challenges, and to how raise awareness about the potential of this technology for increasing food production.
8 Aug 2022
Ruth Salmon: Empowering an industry
After a federal judge reversed the government order to close 19 Discovery Islands salmon farms, members at the BC Salmon Farmers Association were relieved, however, it was a very different picture at the beginning of the year. In this episode, Ruth Salmon, interim executive director at BC Salmon Farmers Association, talks about the what happened in British Columbia the past few months and what kinds of conversations were going on behind the scenes.
28 Jun 2022
Sylvia Wulf: Finding your path to the C-suite
Developing leadership skills and creating positive change in the future of women’s leadership is definitely something that requires collective effort in the aquaculture industry. In this episode, Sylvia Wulf, president and chief executive officer of AquaBounty Technologies, talks about challenges to bridging that gap, and what has helped her advance leadership positions and senior roles throughout her career.
11 Apr 2022
Megan Sorby: Finding the right people on your team
Building a facility from the ground up is an operator’s dream! Megan Sorby, the operations of Kingfish Maine, talks about what it’s like to work from a blank slate and bringing in the right team for their recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) design in Jonesport, Maine. This episode was recorded during RASTECH 2022 Conference and Trade Fair at Hilton Head Island, SC.
21 Mar 2022
Jeanne McKnight: How to tell the aquaculture story
Jeanne McKnight has more than 30 years of experience in communications and marketing within the aquaculture industry. She is the executive director of Northwest Aquaculture Alliance, and she is also president and chairman of her own communications firm, McKnight Group. In this episode, we meet up with Jeanne in person at Aquaculture 2022 in San Diego to share her thoughts on how the industry has changed over the years.
11 Mar 2022
Briana Warner: Taking the lead in economic development
While lobster farming is creating a mono-cultural economy in coastal Maine, Briana Warner and Atlantic Sea Farms offers opportunities for lobster farmers to expand their off-season business into growing sustainable kelp. In this episode, we talk to Briana about how she sees her role as chief executive officer of the largest kelp farming company in the state and the impact of being a female leader in the industry.
7 Mar 2022
Imani Black: Creating opportunities for minorities
In 2020, Imani Black was on a search for role models and fellow colleagues who could share in her experience as a black woman in the aquaculture industry. And so, in the middle of a pandemic, she decided to found her own non-profit organization, Minorities in Aquaculture (MIA). In this episode, we explore the importance of diversity and inclusion in the sector, and creating more opportunities to engage with fish farmers of color.
7 Feb 2022
Jennifer Woodland: Indigenous aquaculture is beyond stewardship
Jennifer Woodland is CEO of Nu-chah-nulth Seafood, a Canadian Indigenous-owned company that provides business development support for aquaculture businesses in the Indigenous communities of Vancouver Island. She also serves as chair of the Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance. Throughout her career, advocacy for the industry has been just as important as her day-to-day work. In this episode, she shares her experiences as a leader for the sector and what she has learned about bringing the industry’s message to the public.
7 Jan 2022
Jill Voorhees: Don’t hold back in finding work/life balance
With a short 12 years of industry experience under her belt, Jill Voorhees has already accomplished so much as a biologist South Dakota’s McNenny Fish Hatchery. In this episode, Jill shares how she fell into the world of fisheries and aquaculture, and has gone on to become an accomplished thought leader in the industry. The best advice she was ever given was don’t hold back! Work/life balance is possible with the right support systems.
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