Rising Tides - Adapting to Coastal Maine's Future

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Rising Tides: Adapting to Coastal Maine’s Future captures the voices of people living and working along Maine’s changing coast. Through long-form conversations with oyster farmers and other aquaculturalists, fishermen, scientists, and community leaders, the series explores how environmental, economic, and cultural forces are reshaping the working waterfront. Maine’s coast sits on the frontlines of global change. Warming waters, shifting fisheries, new industries, and increasing pressure on access and infrastructure are transforming ways of life that have endured for generations. Rather than focusing on headlines or ideology, Rising Tides listens closely to lived experience – how people are adapting, what is being lost, and what might still be preserved. These are local stories with global relevance, told thoughtfully and without haste, offering insight into the challenges and possibilities facing coastal communities in Maine and beyond.

Episodes

  1. 5D AGO

    Rising Tides: Change on the Working Waterfront - with Jeff Auger

    Maine’s coastal future is being shaped by people adapting in real time. In this opening episode of Rising Tides, Bill Perna speaks with oyster farmer Jeff Auger about the forces reshaping the working waterfront. Jeff reflects on his path into aquaculture and the realities of building a livelihood on the water today. Together, they discuss cooperation between fishermen, farmers, regulators, and coastal communities, and how environmental change, access, and local knowledge increasingly shape everyday decisions along Maine’s coast. Perna Content's Rising Tides explores how coastal Maine is adapting to environmental, economic, and cultural change through long-form conversations with people working on and alongside the water. New episodes are released fortnightly. The podcast accompanies the book Rising Tides: Adapting to Maine’s Coastal Future, available at www.pernacontent.com/publishing

    37 min
  2. Maine Oyster Aquaculture: Maine Ocean Farms - with Eric Oransky

    03/16/2021

    Maine Oyster Aquaculture: Maine Ocean Farms - with Eric Oransky

    Eric Oransky grew up in Freeport, Maine. He spent a lot of time on Casco Bay.  When he was 21, he apprenticed with the Scottish master cabinet maker James Bowie for furniture making in northern California. In 2007, at 23, Eric moved back to Maine and started his first business,  all the while spending time on the water any chance he got. He focused on woodworking, including furniture, and building for about seven years. He found he missed working on the water. So, in 2017 he formed Maine Ocean Farms with his two partners, Willy Leathers and Tom Klondenski.   Perna Content's Rising Tides explores how coastal Maine is adapting to environmental, economic, and cultural change through long-form conversations with people working on and alongside the water. New episodes are released fortnightly. The podcast accompanies the book Rising Tides: Adapting to Maine’s Coastal Future, available at www.pernacontent.com/publishing

    23 min
  3. Maine Oyster Aquaculture: Maine Coast Fishermen's Association - with Ben Martens

    02/02/2021

    Maine Oyster Aquaculture: Maine Coast Fishermen's Association - with Ben Martens

    This episode is part of a series of long-form conversations exploring Maine aquaculture and the people working on and alongside the water. Through firsthand experience and lived perspective, the podcast looks at how environmental, economic, and community forces shape Maine’s working waterfront. Perna Content's Rising Tides explores how coastal Maine is adapting to environmental, economic, and cultural change through long-form conversations with people working on and alongside the water. New episodes are released fortnightly. The podcast accompanies the book Rising Tides: Adapting to Maine’s Coastal Future, available at www.pernacontent.com/publishing

    17 min
  4. Maine Oyster Aquaculture: Pernaquid Oyster - with Smokey McKeen

    01/19/2021

    Maine Oyster Aquaculture: Pernaquid Oyster - with Smokey McKeen

    This episode is part of a series of long-form conversations exploring Maine aquaculture and the people working on and alongside the water. Through firsthand experience and lived perspective, the podcast looks at how environmental, economic, and community forces shape Maine’s working waterfront. Perna Content's Rising Tides explores how coastal Maine is adapting to environmental, economic, and cultural change through long-form conversations with people working on and alongside the water. New episodes are released fortnightly. The podcast accompanies the book Rising Tides: Adapting to Maine’s Coastal Future, available at www.pernacontent.com/publishing

    14 min
  5. Maine Oyster Aquaculture: Upstream Trucking - with George Parr

    12/29/2020

    Maine Oyster Aquaculture: Upstream Trucking - with George Parr

    George Parr has been in the seafood business for four decades. He has been instrumental in creating the reputation of Maine oysters. George takes a firm stand when buyers “From Away” come to Maine and try to drive down oyster prices rather than pay a fair price for what many consider to be among the world’s best oysters. His sense of fairness has benefited not just his clients but all of Maine’s oyster growers. George came to Maine from New York City He is candid, funny, and direct. To say George is an interesting character would be an understatement.  I quickly realized He has encyclopedic knowledge that he easily draws from. George has probably forgotten more than many people know about the business. He, like his partner Dana Street, has been a significant influence in creating Portland’s well-deserved reputation as one of the best food towns in the U.S. Dana Street has a prestigious portfolio of some of Portland’s best restaurants, Street and Company; Fore Street, with Sam Hayward; Standard Bakery, with Alison Pray, and the Scales Restaurant, on the Maine Wharf next to Upstream Trucking. Upstream Trucking is a seafood-wholesaling business that George runs and That’s where I met George. Perna Content's Rising Tides explores how coastal Maine is adapting to environmental, economic, and cultural change through long-form conversations with people working on and alongside the water. New episodes are released fortnightly. The podcast accompanies the book Rising Tides: Adapting to Maine’s Coastal Future, available at www.pernacontent.com/publishing

    14 min
  6. Maine Oyster Aquaculture: Nonesuch Oysters - with Abigail Carroll

    12/15/2020

    Maine Oyster Aquaculture: Nonesuch Oysters - with Abigail Carroll

    In 2010, Abigail Carroll started NONESUCH oysters. It began as a small oyster farm in a nature conservancy in Scarborough, Maine, which just south of Portland. Today Nonesuch Oyster is an award-winning company whose oysters are in found top restaurants across the country.  NONESUCH also offers a range of healthy Maine seafood and handmade skincare products made with Maine marine ingredients. Perna Content's Rising Tides explores how coastal Maine is adapting to environmental, economic, and cultural change through long-form conversations with people working on and alongside the water. New episodes are released fortnightly. The podcast accompanies the book Rising Tides: Adapting to Maine’s Coastal Future, available at www.pernacontent.com/publishing

    9 min
  7. Maine Oyster Aquaculture: Mook Sea Farms - with Bill Mook

    11/01/2020

    Maine Oyster Aquaculture: Mook Sea Farms - with Bill Mook

    Today we are with Bill Mook,  an industry pioneer who is the founder of Mook Sea Farm, an oyster farm on the Damariscotta River.   Bill has been recognized by the Gulf of Maine Council's Sustainable Industry Awards for his efforts to improve the Gulf of Maine ecosystem and the coastal communities. He was a member of the Maine Ocean Acidification Commission that convened, wrote, and submitted a report to the Maine Legislature on the effects of coastal and ocean acidification on commercially harvested species grown long Maine’s Coast. He is a tireless advocate for climate change awareness, and how ocean acidification impacts oysters.  Bill was a founding member of the Damariscotta River Association Tidewater Watch that served as the model for the Coastwide volunteer monitoring program for pollution.   He is a founding member of the Shellfish Growers Climate Coalition in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy  He has testified to the U.S. Congress about the impacts of ocean acidification and climate change.  Bill Mook also serves on Governor Mill's Climate Council. Perna Content's Rising Tides explores how coastal Maine is adapting to environmental, economic, and cultural change through long-form conversations with people working on and alongside the water. New episodes are released fortnightly. The podcast accompanies the book Rising Tides: Adapting to Maine’s Coastal Future, available at www.pernacontent.com/publishing

    22 min
  8. Maine Oyster Aquaculture: Love Point Oyster - with Ben Hamilton

    10/27/2020

    Maine Oyster Aquaculture: Love Point Oyster - with Ben Hamilton

    This episode is part of a series of long-form conversations exploring Maine aquaculture and the people working on and alongside the water. Through firsthand experience and lived perspective, the podcast looks at how environmental, economic, and community forces shape Maine’s working waterfront. Perna Content's Rising Tides explores how coastal Maine is adapting to environmental, economic, and cultural change through long-form conversations with people working on and alongside the water. New episodes are released fortnightly. The podcast accompanies the book Rising Tides: Adapting to Maine’s Coastal Future, available at www.pernacontent.com/publishing

    11 min
  9. Maine Oyster Aquaculture: Community Shellfish - with Boe Marsh

    10/26/2020

    Maine Oyster Aquaculture: Community Shellfish - with Boe Marsh

    This episode is part of a series of long-form conversations exploring Maine aquaculture and the people working on and alongside the water. Through firsthand experience and lived perspective, the podcast looks at how environmental, economic, and community forces shape Maine’s working waterfront. Perna Content's Rising Tides explores how coastal Maine is adapting to environmental, economic, and cultural change through long-form conversations with people working on and alongside the water. New episodes are released fortnightly. The podcast accompanies the book Rising Tides: Adapting to Maine’s Coastal Future, available at www.pernacontent.com/publishing

    20 min
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Rising Tides: Adapting to Coastal Maine’s Future captures the voices of people living and working along Maine’s changing coast. Through long-form conversations with oyster farmers and other aquaculturalists, fishermen, scientists, and community leaders, the series explores how environmental, economic, and cultural forces are reshaping the working waterfront. Maine’s coast sits on the frontlines of global change. Warming waters, shifting fisheries, new industries, and increasing pressure on access and infrastructure are transforming ways of life that have endured for generations. Rather than focusing on headlines or ideology, Rising Tides listens closely to lived experience – how people are adapting, what is being lost, and what might still be preserved. These are local stories with global relevance, told thoughtfully and without haste, offering insight into the challenges and possibilities facing coastal communities in Maine and beyond.

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