Chad Strugnell says Labrador harvesters deserve a northern cod quota increase + Jim Myles of the Marystown Model Ship Gallery chats about some of the artifacts and models on display this season.

On this episode of the WPOG podcast, LTG (R) Reynold Hoover, CEO of LA28 and West Point class of 1983, unpacks the leadership, planning, and execution strategies powering the largest Olympic and Paralympic Games in history. As the CEO of LA28, the Organizing Committee for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles, Hoover oversees the pla…

DFO biologist Joanie Van de Walle says the seal population in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is getting older + Jessica Vincent, project coordinator with the Indian Bay Ecosystem Corp., says after 11 years without sightings, two piping plovers have been seen in Cape Freels.

FFAW president Dwan Street slams local processors sending snow crab for processing in other provinces + Conway Caines outlines reasons why he is against using elogs.

Coast Guard's Bruce English on the status of the MSC Baltic lll + Jim Sheppard with his new song about the stranded cargo ship + Barry Fordham takes his protest for an expanded food fishery to DFO + Iris Stunzi tells us about Trap Berth Day on Fogo Island

Craig Parsons with the NL Fish Harvesting Safety Association on current safety campaigns + Mackenzie Piercy explains her ship design at an open house featuring graduating naval architects + Jeffrey Keefe in Black Tickle on the icebergs, bears, birds and seals in his ocean backyard

An extraordinary effort to free a humpback by the Whale Release and Strandings group + Designing ships, students in the naval architecture program at the Marine Institute talk about their futures

Monica Engel tells us about her documentary on human - polar bear interaction on the Great Northern Peninsula + Recipients of the Turning the Tide Marine Industry Awards announced + Brendan Gould tells us about his video showing seals chasing herring in the bay

Jeanette Russell, founder of the Labrador Coalition for Search and Rescue, continues to push for better search and rescue capabilities + The Canadian Marine Careers Foundation is trying to bring attention to "critical labour and skills shortages in the country's marine transportation sector."

Fish harvester Amanda Boutcher on why she staged a protest over elogs at DFO headquarters in St. John's + A smart buoy for Hermitage Bay will monitor sea conditions - we head to the Marine Institute in Holyrood for a look at the large yellow buoy.

Seal tastings, an archival exhibit, and lots of people eager to take part in a live reading of "Death on the Ice" + Bruce English of the Canadian Coast Guard with the latest on the salvage operation of the MSC Baltic III.

Gary Collins on the research involved to write a book on the F/V Elite Navigator rescue + From January 2025, Marcel O'Brien and Jim Chidley of the Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary show us what's inside the Elite Navigator's life-raft.

Jason Sullivan, inshore vice president with the FFAW, says his privacy is being violated because fisheries officers seized his mobile phone as part of an investigation + Director of Tourism Marketing Darrell Smith says tour boat operators are very pleased with the launch of HelloHumpback.ca.…

Sheldon George of Ocean Trout Canada says they're trying to determine how many trout escaped from a farm site near St. Alban's + Kimberly Orren of Fishing for Success talks about the upcoming live reading of "Death on the Ice."

Nunatsiavut's deputy minister of Lands and Natural Resources Jim Goudie says the NMCA off Torngat Mountains National Park is still on track to be the first in NL + Hear from some of the students working on ways to store carbon under the seabed at MUN's new CCUS lab.

Process engineering professor Lesley James says the students at the new Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage Lab at MUN will help create a new industry in NL + Chef Chris Mercer of the Post Taphouse in Torbay is giving a workshop on how to fillet and cook fish.

Rough Water Traps owner Matthew O'Leary says despite threats, his company did not need to comply with ASP demands + Barry Fordham of the Food Fishery Fighters is still hopeful DFO will make changes to the summer recreational cod fishery.

FFAW president Dwan Street accusing ASP of intimidation tactics + Jamie Baker, FFAW rep for area 3PS, says harvesters beyond frustrated over the apps used or electronic logging + Jeff Griffin, FFAW rep for area 14A, says cold water temperature affecting beginning of lobster season.

Laurenne Schiller, a postdoc research fellow at Dalhousie and Carleton, is the lead author of a study on the damaging effects of drifting fish aggregating devices to catch tuna + Some junior high students use some old-fashioned tools to learn about boat building.

DFO biologist Elizabeth Coughlan on why the waters around Newfoundland have become so ideal for lobster + Back in August 2023, the late Mark Hiscock had become a captain for O'Brien's Whale and Bird Tours.

Fisherman Boyd Lavers has a safety message after a close call last week + Keisha Mercer's drawing that depicts the rescue of the 'Elite Navigator' crew will be bronzed and put on display in New-Wes-Valley

Danny Dumaresque is part of NL delegation at a seafood expo in Barcelona + Tonia Grandy of New Age Seafoods in Garnish says lobster harvesters are having a rough season + C-Core's Desmond Power says big icebergs off NL shores are becoming more rare.

Broadcast producer Todd O'Brien tags along as seabird biologist Bill Montevecchi and his students capture and perform tests on gannets at Cape St. Mary's, before attaching tracking devices to the birds

Dwight Russell, president of the Labrador Fishermen's Union Shrimp Company, says Labrador should get a fair share of a cod quota increase, but that's not what was recommended to DFO by the FFAW + A team from Southwest Arm Academy is competing in the MATE ROV challenge for the first time

Clayton Burry, chair of the Ocean Ranger Legacy Foundation, hopes they can secure a permanent exhibit space in St. John's + Sean Brillant of the Canadian Wildlife Federation says harvesters in NL may soon need better access to whale-safe crab and lobster gear

In this episode, Louis Gelinas, West Point Class of ‘11, shares how his Army experiences, especially managing people and operations under pressure, shaped his entrepreneurial path. Currently, the Director of Product at Rivet — a workforce management platform for trade contractors — was born from a simple but powerful idea: solve a real-world proble…

Julie Huntington of the Whale Release and Strandings Group says they were called to help two humpbacks last weekend + Felix Morrow is the lead author of a paper about crime in the Canada's sea cucumber fisheries

Hilding Neilson, an assistant professor of physics and physical oceanography, talks about the debris warning due to the Atlas V rocket launch + Ian Gosse of the Torbay Harbour Authority on why Tapper's Cove is now off-limits + Brad House of Port Saunders talks about the opening of lobster season…

From 2009, a Land & Sea episode about Exploits Island called 'A Lot of Good Memories' hosted by Fred Greening

The difference in the Urner Barry price for Nfld and Gulf crab, is not a cause for concern says Jeff Loder of the ASP + Jocelyn Kelland talks about the legacy of her father's song 'Let Me Fish off Cape St. Mary's' which will soon be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame

FFAW president Dwan Street says the difference between the price of Gulf crab and NL crab needs to be investigated + Historian Willeen Keough tees up her lecture on "Unsettling Femininity in Early Irish-Newfoundland Fishing Communities" 

Shelley Lang discusses the latest DFO stock assessment of Northwest Atlantic harp seals + Coast Guard senior response officer Bruce English says pollution from the Baltic III is being cleaned up

Nadia Childs says the salvage operation of a grounded container ship off Lark Harbour is taking too long + Ernest Decker has concerns about how lobster is priced + Barry Fordham of 'Sharing the Harvest' and 'Food, Fish Fighters' is donating some seal flippers to food banks

What do Central Newfoundland federal candidates NDP Darian Vincent, Liberal Lynette Powell and Conservative Clifford Small have to say about fisheries issues? + Independent MHA Eddie Joyce has concerns about the salvage of the grounded MSC Baltic III.

Erin Snow is frustrated that no governments have offered assistance to help clean debris and ghost gear off of Spotted Island + Larry Daley gave reporters a sneak peak of his new Titanic and iceberg exhibit.

FFAW president Dwan Street says the grounded container ship near Lark Harbour is a potential environmental disaster + Mike Peach is running for the Animal Protection Party of Canada in the district of Cape Spear.

Dion Dakins of Carino Processing on today's market for seal products + Élodie Lévêque and Matthew Collins are part of a University of Cambridge study on how medieval French monks used seal skin to bind books.

FFAW president Dwan Street and fisherman John Efford are relieved the Pricing Panel chose the union's price offering for snow crab + Dion Dakins, CEO of Carino Processing, talks about the harp seal stock.

Supreme Court strikes down minister Gerry Byrne's decision to delay crap opening date + Lark Harbour mayor Wade Park says it doesn't feel like much progress has been made in the salvage operation of MSC Baltic III.

The province's labour division has assigned a conciliator to help the FFAW and St. Anthony Seafoods get back to collective bargaining + Chris Hamelmann relies on barometers to monitor the weather, and he repairs them too.

James Farrell of the FFAW says the intimidation tactics continue from Royal Greenland-owned plant in St. Anthony + FFAW negotiator Ray Critch on why union wants $4.97 per lb for opening snow crab price + What federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said about fisheries during campaign stop in St. John's.…

Company president Blaine Sullivan on how OCI became co-owner of crab plant in Glovertown + Labrador Gem Seafoods owner Danny Dumaresque on Canada being spared US tariffs on seafood + Estella Pfaff, Nick Weis-Fogh and crew circumnavigated North America in a schooner that departed from Triton.…

Research scientist Paul Regular says northern cod spawning biomass has been revised upward + Alberto Wareham of Icewater Seafoods and chair of Fisheries Council of Canada relieved about US tariffs and news about northern cod + The FFAW's Jason Spingle says there are questions about the science, but the news about northern cod is p…

Does the province's fisheries minister have the right to move the crab price setting date without consulting processors? We'll hear from the ASP and the lawyer for the FFAW + Wayne Ledwell says his team freed a humpback tangled in herring gear off Terrenceville.

Pierre Poilievre's election promises include doubling the funding for small craft harbours and pushing foreigners out of the fishery + Wanda Cuff-Young from Work Global Canada on how the crab fishery delay could impact foreign workers employed in seafood processing.

Jeff Loder on tariffs and what the ASP hopes comes out of its lawsuit against the province + Ocean Choice International president Blaine Sullivan on what could be in store for the crab fishery + Fisherman Chad Strugnell of St. Lewis has plenty of concerns about the fishery off Labrador.…

Executive director Jeff Loder explains why the ASP is going to Supreme Court to fight a change in the opening date of snow crab fishery + Liberal Joanne Thompson, NDP Mary Shortall and Conservative David Brazil speak to fisheries issues.

Fisherman Rod Rowe and his questions about the latest crab stock assessment + Fishery Food Fighters advocating for greater access to the recreational food fishery + Control of The Best Fish and Chips Facebook group remains out of Geoff Meeker's hands.

South Coast residents express strong support in creating a new national maritime conservation area in the South Coast Fjords area + FFAW says compensation is available for fish harvesters affected by the tow out of the Cenovus concrete gravity structure.

Even though the crab quota didn't change, fish harvester Richard Gillett is looking for change at DFO + Fish lines and a Word of the Week.