As Season One of Fishy Work comes to an end Alin and Ian look back - or rather listen back - to some of the season highlights. 

Welcome to Episode 5 of Fishy Work, Un-romancing the Eco Label! In this episode we dig deeper into seafood eco labels, ask if they cause more harm than good for fishworkers, and explore why it is so difficult to create ethical labels for seafood products. This episode we're going to be speaking with Chris Williams & Katrina Nakamura

Hello and welcome to Fishy Work Episode 4: Union Power

In this episode, we're going to be speaking with Bright Maté Kweku Chai, a former fisher and boatswain on industrial trawls, semi industrial and artisanal vessels. Bright now acts as a local chairman for NUSPAW, the National Union for Sea, Port and Allied Workers in Ghana.

And we're also joined by Vanessa Jaiteh, a senior research scientist at the Centre for Development and Environment at the University of Bern in Switzerland. 

Hello and welcome to Fishy Work Episode 3, What happens when people move and refuse? In Fishy Work thus far we've spoken more broadly about why conditions at sea can be so bad, including organized attempts to improve the working lives of fish workers. And we've also spoken about the management of the fish supply chain, including how NGOs have worked with companies, especially with the aim of removing forced labour from their business networks. In this episode, we want to centre on the fish workers, especially migrant workers, including looking into how they migrate and, crucially, what their migration means in social, political, and economic terms. And we have two amazing researchers to help us understand this. Siddharth Chakravarty, a PhD researcher at Queen Mary University of London, and Andrew Lee, assistant professor at the Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University.

We've been thinking about supply chain management, and it's much less abstract that is sounds! It allows is to put people, products, and political invention into one framework, and it allows us to ask the question - when thinking aboutemployment conditions in the fishing industry - is it business as usual? This episode's guests are Miriam Wilhelm, Professor of Sustainable Supply Chain Management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and Andrew Crane, Professor of Business and Society at the University of Bath. 

Welcome to the first ever episode of Fishy Work, my name is Ian. Join me this season as we cast off into a sea of trash fish, worker precarity, racism, and labour campaigns to name but a few of the topics we'll find stranded and floating, calling out to have a podcast made about them.

In this episode we’re talking with Melissa Marschke and Peter Vandergeest about what structures working conditions at sea, why it can be so bad, yet why fishing is still meaningful for many fisher folk, how researchers go about researching labour at sea, and what organisations, campaigners and unions are doing to help improve working conditions.

A podcast about marine ecologies and labouring at sea hosted by Ian M. Cook and Alin Kadfak. Join us as we cast off into a sea of trash fish, worker precarity, racism, and labour campaigns to name but a few of the topics we’ll find stranded, floating, and calling out to have a podcast made about them. Expect a new episode on the third Monday of every month!