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For Maine sea urchin industry, innovation is key to survival (MARKETPLACE MORNING REPORT/APM)
Produced + reported by Caroline Losneck
MARKETPLACE/APM
Atchan Tamaki, the founder of seafood processor ISF Trading, has seen Maine’s sea urchin industry shrink significantly in the 40 years he’s been in business. His approach to surviving in an ever changing seafood economy, facing climate change, regulations, and population declines is adaptation and innovation. Now, he's got a bunch of neat side hustles.
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Produced + reported by Caroline Losneck
MARKETPLACE/APM
Atchan Tamaki, the founder of seafood processor ISF Trading, has seen Maine’s sea urchin industry shrink significantly in the 40 years he’s been in business. His approach to surviving in an ever changing seafood economy, facing climate change, regulations, and population declines is adaptation and innovation. Now, he's got a bunch of neat side hustles.
LISTEN HERE
Scalloping is serious business in Massachusetts, as locals celebrate 'Scallopalooza' (NPR/Weekend Edition) Produced + reported by Caroline Losneck NPR (audio postcard) New Bedford, Massachusetts, calls itself "the scallop capital of the world" and this August, the city celebrated Scallopalooza. It's an event close to the city's working waterfront that celebrates the Atlantic sea scallop and the people who work on the boats. Like most festivals, Scallopalooza is fun, but scallops are serious business here. Of about 500 vessels that fish out of the Port of New Bedford, and about two-thirds of them harvest scallops.About 80% of the seafood, by value, that arrives on the docks here comes from scallops, according to a 2020 report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries. They're central to the city's identity and culture. The highlight is a raucous shucking contest where over a dozen local scallopers face off in heats, all up on a stage, to see who can remove the meat from the shell the cleanest and fastest. And spectators in the front rows probably even get some scallop parts on them as a memento. The festival showcases the scallop, but also the people doing the hard work behind the scallop fishery, something that usually happens out at sea, not on dry land, in public view. Fishers and scallopers don't work a 9 to 5 job, they work long hours out on boats, away from their families and loved ones. The shucking contest is a chance to shine the spotlight on the skilled workers, and the labor, that makes the industry possible. "We certainly hope people are gonna have a 'shucking' good time at this event," said Joe Ritter, of the New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center, the event organizer. LISTEN HERE |
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This Jail in Rural Maine Is a Model for Treating Opioid Addiction: an addiction specialist on how one monthly injection can save lives (New York Times/Audio Opinion)
By Alane O’Connor
Produced by Kristina Samulewski and Caroline Losneck
An audio story for the NYT Audio I worked on. Maine has one of the highest rates of opioid use disorder in the nation. But a program at a rural Maine jail initiated by an addiction medicine specialist, Alane O’Connor, is offering hope and saving lives. She’s spearheading a pilot program that offers a monthly injection of the drug Sublocade to addicted inmates, which curbs opioid cravings continuously for a month. In this episode, she argues, “jails are an incredible opportunity to help people enter recovery.”
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By Alane O’Connor
Produced by Kristina Samulewski and Caroline Losneck
An audio story for the NYT Audio I worked on. Maine has one of the highest rates of opioid use disorder in the nation. But a program at a rural Maine jail initiated by an addiction medicine specialist, Alane O’Connor, is offering hope and saving lives. She’s spearheading a pilot program that offers a monthly injection of the drug Sublocade to addicted inmates, which curbs opioid cravings continuously for a month. In this episode, she argues, “jails are an incredible opportunity to help people enter recovery.”
LISTEN HERE
Comeback season for Maine shrimp was kind of...shrimpy (Marketplace/APM)
Produced + reported by Caroline Losneck
MARKETPLACE
Warming waters have had a big impact on the species, and the fishery has been shut down for over a decade. This year was a test.
Maine shrimp, also known as Northern shrimp, is small, pink, sweet, delicate — and some say delicious enough to eat raw. But raw or cooked, it’s not really been available in recent years. That’s because warming waters and low biomass have meant the fishery has been shut down for over a decade. But people were hopeful that a limited catch survey this winter would reveal the shrimp had recovered a little, and that some would even hit markets for customers eager to get some. But that didn’t happen.
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Music as a Refuge (PRX/The World)
Produced + reported by Caroline Losneck
THE WORLD/PRX
Hadithi Abdulle taught himself to play the oud growing up in Somalia, during a childhood disrupted by civil war. Through the upheaval in his life, including racism in the US, this instrument has been his constant and his refuge. He now shares his stories and music in Maine, the whitest state in the country, and he's taught oud and singing at a center for grieving children in Maine.
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Produced + reported by Caroline Losneck
THE WORLD/PRX
Hadithi Abdulle taught himself to play the oud growing up in Somalia, during a childhood disrupted by civil war. Through the upheaval in his life, including racism in the US, this instrument has been his constant and his refuge. He now shares his stories and music in Maine, the whitest state in the country, and he's taught oud and singing at a center for grieving children in Maine.
LISTEN HERE
Hell Valley, Hawai‘i, USA (EP 8 PRX)
Produced by Caroline Losneck + J Matt
PRX/Mellon Foundation MONUMENTAL SERIES
The landscape of public memory is shifting. As we re-examine the plaques in our parks and sculptures on our streets, we grapple with what to do with them. Once we learn the stories these objects tell about who we are, will tearing down statues and renaming schools be enough?
The Monumental series interrogates the state of monuments across the country and what their future says about our own. In this 10-episode series, host and author
Ashley C Ford and a team of audio journalists from around the country will piece together the complex stories behind some of the thousands of monuments that exist in every corner of the U.S. beginning October 30, 2023.
My episode is about Hononuliuli, a former "detention camp" on Oahu, close to Honolulu, where hundreds of people of Japanese ancestry were forcably imprisoned in WWII for no reason but their ancestry. Pearl Harbor National Monument is the most visited place in Hawaii, and it’s one of two national sites recognizing a foreign assault on U.S. soil. The monument tells the story of the Japanese Empire’s sneak attack on the island of Oahu in 1941 and how the U.S. declared war on Japan and entered World War II the following day. But the U.S. government did something else that’s not often talked about: martial law was immediately declared in Hawaii, followed by the incarceration of men, women and children of Japanese ancestry. Just over ten miles from Pearl Harbor is the Honouliuli National Historic Site. It was Hawaii's largest and longest-serving World War II confinement camp, and it’s now being developed by the National Park Service as a new memorial space that will eventually be open to the public. It’s only when we look at Pearl Harbor and Honouliuli together – and see them as inextricably part of the same story – that we can reconcile who we Americans believe ourselves to be, with who we sometimes actually are.
For more information about Monumental, visit our website at www.prx.org/monumental
LISTEN TO MY EPISODE HERE.
Produced by Caroline Losneck + J Matt
PRX/Mellon Foundation MONUMENTAL SERIES
The landscape of public memory is shifting. As we re-examine the plaques in our parks and sculptures on our streets, we grapple with what to do with them. Once we learn the stories these objects tell about who we are, will tearing down statues and renaming schools be enough?
The Monumental series interrogates the state of monuments across the country and what their future says about our own. In this 10-episode series, host and author
Ashley C Ford and a team of audio journalists from around the country will piece together the complex stories behind some of the thousands of monuments that exist in every corner of the U.S. beginning October 30, 2023.
My episode is about Hononuliuli, a former "detention camp" on Oahu, close to Honolulu, where hundreds of people of Japanese ancestry were forcably imprisoned in WWII for no reason but their ancestry. Pearl Harbor National Monument is the most visited place in Hawaii, and it’s one of two national sites recognizing a foreign assault on U.S. soil. The monument tells the story of the Japanese Empire’s sneak attack on the island of Oahu in 1941 and how the U.S. declared war on Japan and entered World War II the following day. But the U.S. government did something else that’s not often talked about: martial law was immediately declared in Hawaii, followed by the incarceration of men, women and children of Japanese ancestry. Just over ten miles from Pearl Harbor is the Honouliuli National Historic Site. It was Hawaii's largest and longest-serving World War II confinement camp, and it’s now being developed by the National Park Service as a new memorial space that will eventually be open to the public. It’s only when we look at Pearl Harbor and Honouliuli together – and see them as inextricably part of the same story – that we can reconcile who we Americans believe ourselves to be, with who we sometimes actually are.
For more information about Monumental, visit our website at www.prx.org/monumental
LISTEN TO MY EPISODE HERE.
Here I am, talking with Alison Uyehara, who grew up on Oahu and is in our story. Here we're inside Pearl Harbor National Monument. Photo: J Matt
Riot Grrrl Energy on an Island Off Maine
Produced by Caroline Losneck
KEXP Sound + Vision
The band Bait Bag calls North Haven Island, Maine home, but their influences come from Washington State’s Riot Grrrl movement of the '90s.
What's more punk rock than band practice in the community school?
Profile by Caroline Losneck LISTEN
Produced by Caroline Losneck
KEXP Sound + Vision
The band Bait Bag calls North Haven Island, Maine home, but their influences come from Washington State’s Riot Grrrl movement of the '90s.
What's more punk rock than band practice in the community school?
Profile by Caroline Losneck LISTEN
Pearl Jam: It's a Rock Band, Not the Smithsonian
Produced by Caroline Losneck + The Kitchen Sisters
KEEPERS Series: stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians. Keepers of the culture and the cultures and collections they keep.
Sometimes we find the story, sometimes the story finds us. Such is the case with this tale of two Keepers from the Northwest, John Burton + Kevin Shuss, the official/unofficial archivists for Pearl Jam. Caroline Losneck, a radio producer in Maine heard our Keepers series about activist archivists and rogue librarians and said to herself, “Hey wait a minute, what about that mythic vault in Seattle I’ve been hearing about for years filled to the brim with 30 years of Pearl Jam? Who's keeping that?”
We are especially keen to put Caroline's story out now, as Pearl Jam, a notoriously activist band, has gone all in for registering young voters and getting out the vote since at least 2004 when they took their Vote for Change tour through the swing states of Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida registering as they went. This 2020 election is no exception. LISTEN
Meet The Woman Who's Been Pearl Jam's Sound Engineer For 24 Years
Produced by Caroline Losneck
NPR
Karrie Keyes has worked as a live sound monitor engineer for the band Pearl Jam for decades-one of the longest employees. Her passion for music and supporting young women in sound careers led her to start SoundGirls. Learn more about her work, as "the mic girl."
For NPR by Caroline Losneck LISTEN
Produced by Caroline Losneck
NPR
Karrie Keyes has worked as a live sound monitor engineer for the band Pearl Jam for decades-one of the longest employees. Her passion for music and supporting young women in sound careers led her to start SoundGirls. Learn more about her work, as "the mic girl."
For NPR by Caroline Losneck LISTEN
