• The Blue Beat

  The Last Fish

  January 11, 2010

  By David Helvarg America’s fish stocks are crashing faster than Wall Street stocks last July, mostly for the same reason: The sea lions are guarding the salmon pens. After months of conflict between corporate and community-based fishermen, industry processors, recreational fishers, and environmentalists, Congress now appears gridlocked on reauthorizing the Magnuson Act, America’s main fishing…

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• The Blue Beat

  A Dolphin’s Plea for Understanding

  January 11, 2010

  By David Helvarg It’s not really a fixed grin, it’s the Botox. Oh, is your tape running? Sorry. Flipper DePescado here. I’m the union rep for Cetacean local 405 at the Long Beach Aquarium, but before that my family were free swimmers in Mexico and let me tell you people·Well, what can I say? Half…

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• The Blue Beat

  If By Sea

  January 11, 2010

  By David Helvarg Scanning the slate-gray waters of San Francisco Bay on an overcast spring day I spot more eider ducks and gulls than barges or ships. We’re patrolling past Alcatraz in a 41-foot Coast Guard utility boat that’s almost as old as its blue-eyed 30-year-old coxswain, Chuck Ashmore. Ironically, this old workhorse, with its…

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• The Blue Beat

  Meeting The Residents of Cozumel’s Reef

  January 11, 2010

  By David Helvarg A scuba vacation off the Yucatan brings a diver face to face with a hungry grouper, a shy octopus and a nosy barracuda Minutes after taking off from the Cancun airport, the prop plane banked steeply away from the coastal hotel zone, and soon we were looking down at the wild, unbroken…

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• The Blue Beat

  A Dolphin Disses War

  January 11, 2010

  April 11, 2003 By David Helvarg My name’s Flipper O’Reilly but you may know me as K-Dog, the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin attached to Commander Task Unit 55.4.3. My picture’s been in all the papers. Not to sound too gung-ho, but when they deployed us from our pens in San Diego and said we were green-lighted…

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You can listen to our podcast on a variety of platforms including Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, Android, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Blubrry, Podchaser, Gaana, the Podcast Index, and Deezer.

Additionally, our podcast is broadcast on several radio stations:

• KGUA Radio – Public Media for the Mendonoma Coast
• KWMR – Point Reyes West Marin Community Radio
• KGNU & KGNU-FM – Denver & Boulder Community Radio Stations
• KKRN – Round Mountain California Listener Supported Radio
• G-TOWN RADIO – Germantown Community Radio, Philadelphia.
• KAKU – The Voice of Maui
• KQUA – Roseburg’s Community Radio Station
• KXCR – Community Radio Florence
• KEPW – Peaceworks Community Radio

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Each episode navigates insightful discussions on marine life, and the critical issues affecting our seas. Informative, educational and humorous, it’s a valuable resource for anyone passionate about understanding and preserving our ocean world!