What Are Blue Foods? | Stats + Stories Episode 384

More than 3 billion people rely on seafood to supply a significant portion of the annual protein in their diets. That number will only rise as the global population grows. At the same time, the United Nations reports that 85% of the world's fisheries are overfished or fully exploited. Researchers are studying the global seafood trade in search of sustainable solutions, and that's a focus of this episode of Stats+Stories with guest Jessica Gephart. Jessica Gephart is an assistant professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Science at the University of Washington, where she runs the seafood globalization lab. Her research focuses on the intersection of seafood globalization and environmental change, evaluating how seafood trade drives distant environmental impacts, as well as how environmental shocks disrupt seafood trade. Gephart served on the scientific leadership team for the blue food assessment, where she co-led the environment and justice chapters and served as a U.S. science envoy for the U.S. Department of State.