Breaking Out of the Echo Chamber

In this week’s?Responsible Seafood Advocate?featured article –?Ocean seeding and blue corridors: Can these approaches effectively safeguard fisheries??– you’ll find a topic (exploring the connection between ocean seeding, philopatry and sterilization) and voices (Jason McNamee of Oceaneos, Jonathan Lauderdale of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Veronica Relano of Sea Around Us and Anna Wargelius of the Institute of Marine Research) that are new to the publication and likely new to our readers, too.

“Seafood can be a bit of an echo chamber. People talking to the same people. It happens a lot. We need to break out of that. There are a lot of great stories to tell,” says?Advocate?Editor James Wright,?guest of this week’s Aquademia podcast?in an episode focusing on the role of media and events in business and the process of “entrepreneurial journalism,” as he calls it.

Accessibility was a word mentioned often in Jamie’s?conversation?with Aquademia co-hosts Shaun O’Loughlin and Justin Grant. Accessibility was not exactly a term that you associated with aquaculture and wild-capture fisheries back in the day. Back then, information was held pretty close to the vest. But over time as information flows more freely with the advent of technology and an influx of new people bring new ideas to the space, echo chambers begin to break down.?And that’s what we hope happens on the pages of the Advocate online magazine, behind the mic of the?Aquademia podcast?and on stage at the?GOAL conference.