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Waseem Imam

Waseem Imam

Founder & Executive Director of Ethical Seafood Research, an aquatic ecologist and fish welfare researcher improving welfare of animals in aquatic food systems.

Aug 12, 2026

MashaHOST
1:28
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.
1:41
Like why fish? Well, I always liked biology anyway, so I knew I wanted to be doing something in that area, but...
1:50
I didn't go into it directly.
1:52
Actually, during my undergraduate degree, I did environmental sciences in Canada, and we had to do three different work placements.
2:02
And the first two were actually not at all scientific.
2:06
It was working with the government for policy work.
2:09
But in the third one, I managed to get this position with the Ministry of Environment in Ontario.

22 MINS LATER

MashaHOST
23:57
And as these stories reach the public, even the world's biggest retailers are being forced to change their standards.
47:57
I
47:57
agree completely, Andrew.
47:58
Like your average farmer, your average fisherman, your fisher folk or fisher person or whatever wants to do right and do better.
48:05
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.
48:16
So I agree completely on that.
48:18
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.
48:32
Yeah.
51:19
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?

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