Episodes

  • Up-Date on the River Trap Research Program

    Up-Date on the River Trap Research Program
    Jun 2 2025
    Peter Krahn is the President of Genesis Environmental Sciences and the brains behind the innovative River Trap selective fish sampling and water testing mobile platform. Peter joins Lawrence Gunther on The Blue Fish Radio show podcast to provide an up-date on the latest River Trap developments and testing underway throughout British Columbia. Find out why a number of First Nations communities are adopting the River Trap to conduct research on the state of salmon and water quality.
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    34 mins
  • International Association of Great Lakes Research and Jerome Marty

    International Association of Great Lakes Research and Jerome Marty
    May 25 2025
    Jérôme Marty is the Executive Director of the International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR). The IAGLR is about to hold their 68th international conference and it couldn’t come at a more crucial time. Jerome speaks with Lawrence Gunther on The Blue Fish Radio show podcast about the importance of Canada and U.S. scientists meeting and collaborating on issues specific to understanding and solving issues impacting the Great Lakes. Science, politics, economics and climate change are making the work of researchers more challenging than ever before.
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    51 mins
  • Watersheds Canada 2025 National Conference

    Watersheds Canada 2025 National Conference
    May 25 2025
    Rovert Pye is the Executive Director of Watersheds Canada and Lawrence Gunther’s guest once again on the Blue Fish Radio show podcast. Fresh off the first National Watersheds Conference Robert and Lawrence discuss highlights of the event and why the Conference needs to become an annual event to both educate stakeholders and facilitate the collaboration needed to strengthen shoreline resilience and safeguard fish habitat. The podcast includes numerous short recordings of event presenters and attendees on why they showed up for the event.
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    47 mins
  • Round Goby and Dr Cristina Charette

    Round Goby and Dr Cristina Charette
    May 20 2025
    Dr. Cristina Charette, Research Scientist & Education Coordinator with the St. Lawrence River Institute for Environmental Science is Lawrence’s guest on The Blue Fish radio show. Find out how gobies have evolved over the past 20- years in the St. Lawrence River, their favorite habitat and food, how they have impacted ecosystems, how different predatory fish have adopted goby as their preferred food, what it means for their health, and how ALL these changes are still very much underway. Turns out there’s a lot more to this invasive species than we thought.
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    52 mins
  • Canada's Watershed Reports and Water Rangers

    Canada's Watershed Reports and Water Rangers
    May 12 2025
    Canada’s Water Rangers recently released The Watershed Reports that assess the health of Canada’s 11 main watersheds. Fishes are one of the four primary indicators used to assess watershed health. Water Ranger’s director Gabrielle Parent-doliner, and Data Coordinator Kiersten McCutcheon join Lawrence Gunther on The Blue Fish Radio show to discuss their findings, the challenges in putting these reports together, what’s coming next, and how anglers can have a bigger role in generating the needed data.
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    42 mins
  • Swim Drink Fish and President Mark Mattson

    Swim Drink Fish and President Mark Mattson
    May 5 2025
    President of Swim Drink Fish Canada and former Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, Mark Mattson has over 35 years of legal advocacy experience devoted to protecting the Great Lakes. With so much turmoil south of the border about to impact Great Lakes water quality, we thought it was time to reconnect with Mark for a water health check. Sometimes wisdom and a big picture focus are just the thing for regaining perspective, and Mark is exactly who we need to help make sense of everything that’s going on. Listen now on The Blue Fish Radio Show.
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    46 mins
  • Salmon Fishing Closures and the BC Recreational Fishing Association

    Salmon Fishing Closures and the BC Recreational Fishing Association
    Apr 28 2025
    President Mark Roberts and Vice President Gayle Gordon of the BC Recreational Fishing Association are Lawrence’s guests on The Blue Fish Radio Show. Unfortunately, more recreational fishing closures have been announced for BC salmon anglers, and the BC Recreational Fishing Association and many others are questioning their scientific validity. Recently published research by DFO on vulnerable Chinook Salmon captures is one such report. Listen and find out why angler associations across BC are coming together to move forward with the implementation of the fundamentals that make selective fishing a reality.
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    40 mins
  • Last Boat on the Lake with Hannah Harrison

    Last Boat on the Lake with Hannah Harrison
    Mar 9 2025
    Dr. Hannah Harrison is an assistant professor at the Marine Affairs Program, Dalhousie University, and the creator of the new documentary “Last Boat on the Lake”. Dr. Harrison grew up in Alaska where she witnessed first-hand the salmon fishery and then moved to Ontario where she studied the Great Lakes commercial fishery at Guelph University. The title of the documentary has more to do with the decline of commercial fishing on the Great Lakes, but for reasons you might find surprising. The Great Lakes represent the most valuable freshwater fishery in the world, and it’s also thriving, so why the decline? Listen to Dr. Harrison on The Blue Fish Radio Show in conversation with Lawrence Gunther and just maybe you will find yourself pursuing a brand new-to-you career path that dates back thousands of years. Visit Dr. Harrisons website to watch the documentary Last Boat on the Lake: WWW.HannahHarrison.Ca
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    56 mins