Episode 1 - Toadfish: A Cautionary Tale
In the 1990s, commercial landings of a data deficient, unregulated fish in New York waters increased by more than 300 percent in a single year without fisheries managers taking note and assessing the sustainability of the fishery or its effects on other fisheries. How did this happen, and could it happen again in the face of climate change, the culinary trash fish movement and developing international markets? Host Ret Talbot and his guests go beyond the data in a quest to answer these and other questions.
Links
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
"Toward Reassessing Data-Deficient Species"
New York's Wildlife Action Plan
Atlantic Coastal Cooperative Statistics Program (ACCSP)
NOAA Fisheries Commercial Landings Data
Guests
William Darwall, IUCN
Richard Federico, Long Island Bayman
Ed Warner, Long Island Bayman
Max Miller, The Landings Restaurant
Carl LoBue, The Nature Conservancy
Wayne Grothe, The Nature Conservancy
Julie Defilippi Simpson, Atlantic Coastal Cooperative Statistics Program
David Kimbro, Northeastern University
John Maniscalco, NY Department of Environmental Conservation
Images
Long Island Oyster Toadfish by Adam Starke
Monkfish - NOAA's Fisheries Collection; Collection of Brandi Noble
Chef Max Miller Comes Face to Face with His First Oyster Toadfish
Oyster Toadfish (Opsanus tau)
Chef Max Miller Sizing Up His First Oyster Toadfish
Chef Max Miller's Lobster Bushi
Chef Max Miller's Toadfish Preparation
NY DEC Peconic Bay Trawl Survey Data for Oyster Toadfish
Thanks
Jake Kritzer, Environmental Defense Fund
Avery Federico
Clay Groves, The Fish Nerds Podcast
Music by Andy G. Cohen
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