Coast to Coast Outdoors Episode 5, We chat with Darren Porter of Nova Scotia talking about government hurdles with fishing, fish passage and what MINAS does.

Coast to Coast Outdoors Episode 5.


We speak with Darren Porter. Darren resides in Windsor Nova
Scotia, avid outdoorsman, angler as well as an outspoken advocate
of waterway (Rivers) issues regarding fish passage. The topics
we'll discuss are government hurdles with fish passage, the
science an research Darren does. Public engagement an viewer
comments welcome.


Darren's detailed bio.


Darren Porter, the founder and director of MINAS. Darren is an
owner and operator of many commercial licenses; he has been
fishing for his entire life. He started fishing clams, oysters,
wild muscles, smelts, Gaspereau, eels, shad, herring, tomcod,
flounder, mackerel, marine plant, squid, sculpin and lobster. He
has been very active in shellfish aquaculture, owning multiple
shell fish leases in different maritime provinces, such as
oysters, muscles and scallops. Darren has done consulting work
for the aquaculture industry, provincial government, as well as
industry. He sits on the board of directors of four fishing
associations, he is a spokesman for the fishing industry and an
advocate for small scale fisheries, coastal communities and the
environment. Darren also works extensively with universities, and
First Nations. His operations are open to the public, industry,
academia, NGO’s and anybody that wishes to interact and immerse
themselves in the local and traditional knowledge, as well he
provides a rare platform for people to see firsthand the
diversity of marine life within the waters. His life’s goal is to
integrate the three knowledges; traditional, local, and academic
to create true wisdom (third eyed science) to manage the ocean
for future generations.


" If you wish to make change, you must lead by example!"


" If i can get the public into the waters and interacting with
the life in the ocean they will protect it"


" Science is incomplete with out all the knowledges at the table"


" Traditional +Local + Academic Knowledge = Wisdom."


" Try managing the fishery, not just the Fishermen"


" The biggest road block in current management of the oceans and
its fishery is the unwillingness to manage other causes of
decline, and the academics unwillingness to share their data with
others."


" We must unlock the hoards of data currently stored in academic
Institutes, and stop the mind set that data has ownership, and
that it is a commodity, until that point is reached nothing will
change." — at The Weir Bramber


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