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Rising Tides - Adapting to Coastal Maine's Future

Rising Tides - Adapting to Coastal Maine's Future

By: Perna Content
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Rising Tides: Adapting to Coastal Maine’s Future captures the voices of people living and working along Maine’s changing coast. Through long-form conversations with oyster farmers and other aquaculturalists, fishermen, scientists, and community leaders, the series explores how environmental, economic, and cultural forces are reshaping the working waterfront.

Maine’s coast sits on the frontlines of global change. Warming waters, shifting fisheries, new industries, and increasing pressure on access and infrastructure are transforming ways of life that have endured for generations. Rather than focusing on headlines or ideology, Rising Tides listens closely to lived experience – how people are adapting, what is being lost, and what might still be preserved.

These are local stories with global relevance, told thoughtfully and without haste, offering insight into the challenges and possibilities facing coastal communities in Maine and beyond.

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Episodes
  • Adapting to Change on the Working Waterfront - with Jeff Auger

    Adapting to Change on the Working Waterfront - with Jeff Auger
    Jan 9 2026

    Maine’s coastal future is being shaped by people adapting in real time. In this opening episode of Rising Tides, Bill Perna speaks with oyster farmer Jeff Auger about the forces reshaping the working waterfront.

    Jeff reflects on his path into aquaculture and the realities of building a livelihood on the water today. Together, they discuss cooperation between fishermen, farmers, regulators, and coastal communities, and how environmental change, access, and local knowledge increasingly shape everyday decisions along Maine’s coast.

    Rising Tides explores how coastal Maine is adapting to environmental, economic, and cultural change through long-form conversations with people working on and alongside the water. New episodes are released fortnightly.

    The podcast accompanies the book Rising Tides: Adapting to Maine’s Coastal Future, available at www.pernacontent.com/publishing
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    37 mins
  • Maine Oyster Aquaculture: Maine Ocean Farms - with Eric Oransky

    Maine Oyster Aquaculture: Maine Ocean Farms - with Eric Oransky
    Mar 16 2021

    Eric Oransky grew up in Freeport, Maine. He spent a lot of time on Casco Bay. When he was 21, he apprenticed with the Scottish master cabinet maker James Bowie for furniture making in northern California. In 2007, at 23, Eric moved back to Maine and started his first business, all the while spending time on the water any chance he got. He focused on woodworking, including furniture, and building for about seven years. He found he missed working on the water. So, in 2017 he formed Maine Ocean Farms with his two partners, Willy Leathers and Tom Klondenski.

    Perna Content's Rising Tides explores how coastal Maine is adapting to environmental, economic, and cultural change through long-form conversations with people working on and alongside the water. New episodes are released fortnightly.

    The podcast accompanies the book Rising Tides: Adapting to Maine’s Coastal Future, available at www.pernacontent.com/publishing
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    23 mins
  • Maine Oyster Aquaculture: Maine Coast Fishermen's Association - with Ben Martens

    Maine Oyster Aquaculture: Maine Coast Fishermen's Association - with Ben Martens
    Feb 2 2021

    This episode is part of a series of long-form conversations exploring Maine aquaculture and the people working on and alongside the water. Through firsthand experience and lived perspective, the podcast looks at how environmental, economic, and community forces shape Maine’s working waterfront.

    Perna Content's Rising Tides explores how coastal Maine is adapting to environmental, economic, and cultural change through long-form conversations with people working on and alongside the water. New episodes are released fortnightly.

    The podcast accompanies the book Rising Tides: Adapting to Maine’s Coastal Future, available at www.pernacontent.com/publishing
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    17 mins
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