Episodes

  • Biinaagami and Meredith Brown

    Biinaagami and Meredith Brown
    Jun 22 2025
    Joining Lawrence on The Blue Fish Radio Show is Meredith Brown from Canadian Geographic, Meredith is one of the brains behind the Biinaagami project developed to inform and inspire people of all ages to connect with the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence watershed. The gymnasium-sized map and its ten digital links to imbedded learning resources was developed over a period of several years with input from numerous colaborators, and has opened the minds of over 10-million people to the water that ties much of Ontario and Quebec and the over 140 indigenous communities together.
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    45 mins
  • Anishinabek Nation Commissioner on Governance Patrick Madahbee

    Anishinabek Nation Commissioner on Governance Patrick Madahbee
    Jun 22 2025
    Patrick Madahbee, Commissioner on Governance and former Grand Council Chief of the Anishinabek Nation is Lawrence Gunther’s guest on The Blue Fish Radio Show. Patrick and Lawrence discuss the many challenges and opportunities associated with transitioning his community to self governance. It’s a wide-ranging conversation that touches on numerous topics from commercial fishing to eco-tourism, and all manner of social, economic, historic,cultural and reconciliation – it’s a conversation you don’t want to miss
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    1 hr
  • Ontario's Experimental Lakes Area and DR Michael Rennie

    Ontario's Experimental Lakes Area and DR Michael Rennie
    Jun 9 2025
    Prior to joining the International Institute for Sustainable Development and the Experimental Lakes Area in 2014, Dr. Michael Rennie was a research scientist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Since 2015, Dr. Rennie has been a Canada Research Chair in Aquatic Ecology and Fisheries and Assistant Professor at Lakehead University, where he continues to maintain a strong research program at the IISD Experimental Lakes Area as a Research Fellow. Dr. Rennie speaks with Lawrence Gunther on The Blue Fish Radio show podcast about the many challenges and rewards associated with having access to so many pristine lakes and native fishes, the responsibilities that go along with initiating fish health studies in nature, and the numerous external variables that both drive and challenge his research.
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    59 mins
  • 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