
Waseem Imam
Founder & Executive Director of Ethical Seafood Research, an aquatic ecologist and fish welfare researcher improving welfare of animals in aquatic food systems.
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Aug 12, 2026
99 Ethical Seafood? Rethinking Aquatic Welfare
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1:28MashaHOST
But as he used advanced technology like electrofishing to stone and catch fish, he began to notice something the data sheets didn't capture, the profound vulnerability of the animals themselves.

Waseem ImamGUEST
Like why fish? Well, I always liked biology anyway, so I knew I wanted to be doing something in that area, but...

Waseem ImamGUEST
Actually, during my undergraduate degree, I did environmental sciences in Canada, and we had to do three different work placements.

Waseem ImamGUEST
But in the third one, I managed to get this position with the Ministry of Environment in Ontario.
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23:57MashaHOST
And as these stories reach the public, even the world's biggest retailers are being forced to change their standards.
What is ethical seafood, and why the way fish are treated could change how you eat forever
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Waseem ImamGUEST
Like your average farmer, your average fisherman, your fisher folk or fisher person or whatever wants to do right and do better.

Waseem ImamGUEST
And when you don't shame them into it, you can have a very nice conversation about how things can be done differently and in a way that also doesn't hurt them.

Waseem ImamGUEST
I was just going to say about, yeah, so then the word seafood obviously is self-explanatory and research is, I just thought of it, like I set it up as a consultancy, you know, carrying out research to answer those questions because I saw it as a niche or a gap.

Andrew LewinHOST
So can you talk a little bit about some of the projects that you have worked on, even just from an overview standpoint, just so people can get a perspective of what, you know, what kind of animal welfare are you looking at and what other people are looking at to get your services?