Coastal Conversations 1/22/16

Producer/Host: Natalie Springuel
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

Issue: Maine coastal and ocean issues

Program Topic: Where have all the shrimp gone?

Key Discussion Points:
Why have regulators put a closure on the Northern Shrimp fishery for the third winter in a row?
How is the shrimp population in the Gulf of Maine doing and how to we know?
How does increased water temperature and other variables impact shrimp populations?
How does the shrimp fishing moratorium impact fishermen?

Guests:
Margaret Hunter, Marine Resource Scientist, Sea Urchin and Northern Shrimp programs, Maine Department of Marine Resources
Dr. Anne Richards, Research Fisheries Biologist, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, Woods Hole, MA
Glen Libby, Port Clyde Fresh Catch and fisherman
Katherine Thompson, PhD student at UMaine studying shrimp, and former deckhand on shrimp vessel.

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 1/21/16

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Most folks know that technology is having big impacts on our everyday life. But that impact often seems to focus on new apps for smart phones or amazing new medical gizmos. But technology is having a huge impact on which jobs survive and which jobs don’t, and how many jobs disappear and how many jobs are replaced. And we aren’t talking about 20 years from now, or even 10. Technology will be a major driver of the net loss of over 5 million jobs in the next 5 years, and not just any technology: artificial intelligence and robotics will contribute to much of that change. What is that going to mean for how we humans live and support ourselves economically? Let’s start to think about that question.