In episode 30 of the IntraFish podcast Editorial Director Drew Cherry, Executive Editor John Fiorillo and reporter John Evans discuss one of the biggest challenges to the growth of today's modern-day salmon farming industry: sea lice.
One of the sector's biggest and most urgent investments, the battle against sea lice, is changing the shape of the sector and the subject of IntraFish's latest in-depth report.
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The team also examines Patagonia's recent salmon-farm bashing campaign and looks at the motivation behind it and the response in the sector.
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New podcasts will stream regularly, bringing you commentary, insight and some stories behind the stories. Here's a quick look at our previous podcasts:
#29: GSMC, shrimp oversupply and salmon's fight against fake news
#28: The biggest seafood stories of 2018!
#27: Mowi Wowie! Does seafood finally have a global brand?
#26: What's next for fish feed?
#25: Land-based salmon farming extravaganza
#24: Japanese CEOs, US retail brands, Chilean salmon M&A
#23: Cargill's Montana dream; touring Marine Harvest BC; shrimp trade war
#22: Fish feed's future; pangasius finds a savior; the hunt for a new bland fish
#21: Chinese tariffs; lobster tensions; a milestone for Alaska pollock
#20: Copper River chaos, Bye to Bodal and Bumble Bee chief, talking salmon in NYC
#19: Investing in aquaculture innovation
#18: Legislating Cooke out of business
#17: Go behind the scenes at this year's Boston Seafood Show
#16: How Norway is building salmon farming's future
#15: Retail sector's new sustainable seafood push, the latest shrimp and pollock outlook
#14: How China's seafood sector is changing
#13: Cooke's catastrophe; traceability trauma; and GM salmon's silent debut
#12: An evening of inspiration, leadership advice and a few 'f bombs'
#11: Fake emails, backroom deals: The tuna price-fixing case is getting weirder
#10: Wild salmon, Brussels, and the weird world of seafood theft
#9: Pangasius woes, American fish counters, fake seafood news
#8: Trump is a threat, sustainability is dead, and pollock needs to get sexy
#7: The rift between WWF and MSC is soiling sustainable seafood
#6: Making money off Chinese consumers
#5: Brexit, Iceland and Trump, Oh My!
#4: Seafood slavery, fish finger price fights, talking Turkey
#3: Seafood at Amazon, Ocean Beauty taste test, targeting Millennial consumers
#2: Listeria, surimi's new market, ridiculous salmon prices
#1: MSC's new market, Pacific Andes saga, Alaska salmon farming
