See The Latest Fish Tales
Storyteller Lewis Reed
Lewis is a life-long naturalist who love’s fishing. He studies fish, he eats fish, …he loves fish! When he’s not fishing you may find him crouched over with a magnifying lens examining the tiny flowers of grasses or looking far into the sky wondering about a distant raptor.
Storyteller Mike Zucker
Raised in Long Beach sport fishing from piers and on boats from Long Beach to San Diego with his father, Mike moved to Santa Barbara in '71 and went to UCSB to study Environmental Studies with Barry Schuyler. He purchased his first small commercial boat and fished locally for rockfish, then went up to Oregon for salmon trolling. F/V Alliance since '81 out of Newport, OR, with salmon, albacore and Dungeness as main fisheries.
Storyteller Taylor White
Taylor grew up on an island in Alaska, where fishing and fishing culture are central to daily life. There, she worked at a salmon hatchery and aquarium, free dove for edible invertebrates, and baited longline skates. She noticed that abalone were getting harder and harder to find so she has dedicated her dissertation work (at UCSC) to understanding and managing abalone populations in Southeastern Alaska.
Storyteller Paul Bump
Paul Bump is an explorer of the small and squishy. His research as a Ph.D. student at Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey casts a net into the ocean of biodiversity to use strange, enigmatic, marine invertebrates to unlock secrets around basic, fundamental biological processes.
Storyteller Sophia Melas
Sophia Melas is living and working in London, and recently finished her Master’s in Tourism Environment and Development at King’s College London.
Storyteller Joe Cutler
Leeches, bot flies, wasps, and tsetse flies—Joe Cutler has been bitten or stung by each one, all in search of tiny freshwater fish. Cutler is a National Geographic Explorer, ichthyologist, and conservationist in Central Africa. Cutler is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Cutler’s stories, writing, and photographs have appeared in National Geographic’s Explorer Magazine, National Geographic Learning, and on National Geographic Adventure's website.
Storyteller Aurora Alifano
Aurora Alifano is a marine scientist, research diver, and storyteller. By day she prevents forced labor in seafood supply chains for local non-profit FishWise, but her hobbies include drinking fine wine, eating gourmet popcorn, and people-watching at airports – preferably all at once.
Storyteller Kelley Voss
Kelley is a Ph.D. student who has studied octopus behavior for the last six years. However, she wouldn't be where she is today without the continuing support of many dedicated ichthyologists who taught her everything she knows.
Storyteller Mary Flodin
Mary Flodin has been living and writing poetry, prose and fiction in Santa Cruz since the ‘70s. Launching this Fall, her novel Fruit of the Devil—a finalist for the Pen Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged fiction—is an eco-thriller set in the watersheds of the Monterey Bay.