Fishy Work

Season Finale

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.

Un-romancing the Ecolabel

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

Union Power

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.

What Happens When People Move and Refuse

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.

Business as Usual?

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.