play Play pause Pause S2 E12 Dec 19, 2025 Repost: No farmed salmon at Christmas - or any other time - with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall As it’s that time of year again, we’re reposting our episode from December 2024 with chef and sustainable food activist, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, for a special Chr...
play Play pause Pause S2 E11 Dec 12, 2025 One Minute to Midnight: Saving England’s Chalk Stream Salmon Once abundant in England’s crystal-clear chalk rivers, our chalk stream salmon now teeter on the edge of extinction. The chalk stream salmon is one of the rarest fish ...
play Play pause Pause S2 E10 Nov 28, 2025 Breaking with the industry: the Mowinckel stand against salmon farming Frederik W. Mowinckel is unique amongst those who oppose salmon farms. It was his family who were some of the original salmon farmers in Norway that gave rise to the ...
play Play pause Pause S2 E9 Nov 14, 2025 Peter Rippin: the pioneering Englishman in Iceland Continuing our journey across the Atlantic, this week we’re in Iceland, a land synonymous with countless stunning salmon rivers. Peter Rippin, is a pioneering Englis...
play Play pause Pause S2 E8 Oct 31, 2025 Scale of Change & the Battle to Save Canada's Atlantic Salmon Over this side of the Atlantic you probably haven’t heard of Hooké or its founder, Fred Campbell, but I liken him to a Canadian Yvon Chouinard, someone who has committ...
play Play pause Pause S2 E7 Oct 18, 2025 Guido Rahr & the Stronghold Strategy Every so often you meet someone whose life is so remarkable and whose love of and determination in saving nature leaves you in awe. I think of the campaigner, Alex Mor...
play Play pause Pause S2 E6 Oct 06, 2025 The Decline of the Baltic salmon Just a few years ago the Baltic salmon were thriving, with huge numbers of fish running the pristine waters of Sweden. Once thought to be on the brink, the salmon boun...
play Play pause Pause S2 E5 Sep 19, 2025 Matt Hayes, Ann-Britt Bogen & the Gaula's future Norway. The legendary land of the giant salmon has been struggling of late, not least in the face of so many salmon farms throttling its beautiful coastline, but fish...
play Play pause Pause S2 E4 Sep 05, 2025 Ben Goldsmith & How Rewilding Can Help Restore Nature Rewilding. It’s about taking a step back and leaving nature alone. But, in the 21st century how can it be achieved? Ben Goldsmith certainly believes it can – and mu...
play Play pause Pause S2 E3 Aug 22, 2025 Stephan & Marina Dombaj: Risking it all for the salmon Midst the doom and gloom about the future of wild salmon, we have to believe - and have faith - that our collective actions – be it through conservation efforts, aware...
play Play pause Pause S2 E2 Aug 08, 2025 Will the Outer Hebrides be the UK's Salmon Stronghold? We know salmon numbers are down and we know there’s an existential threat endangering their very future, but this week on the Last Salmon, Jim Murray finds out why the...
play Play pause Pause S2 E1 Jul 25, 2025 Rob Macfarlane: Rivers are alive and should have rights Is a river alive? What a question….it throws up so many if, buts, maybes, but most importantly, why not? Rivers helped save me, and I truly believe they are our lifeb...
play Play pause Pause trailer Jul 19, 2025 Season 2 Trailer Wild salmon are in a perilous state. But we can’t and won’t give up.The Last Salmon with Jim Murray is back for another season, launching July 25th, addressing the pr...
play Play pause Pause bonus Dec 09, 2024 Christmas Special: Keeping farmed salmon off the table with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Chef and sustainable food activist, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, joins Jim Murray for a special Christmas episode of The Last Salmon podcast explaining why farmed salm...
play Play pause Pause Recommended Episode S1 E12 Jun 04, 2024 The fight goes on and angler voices are needed now more than ever For the final episode of the first series of The Last Salmon, Daire and Jim revisit Iceland and the issue of the regulation and future of salmon farms which Iceland’s ...
play Play pause Pause S1 E11 May 17, 2024 ‘We don’t have time, we need to intervene now.’ Ken Whelan addresses ranching as a possible angler solution Internationally renowned fishery scientist, Ken Whelan, issues a call to action on the latest episode of The Last Salmon. He says that ranching can and will work to he...
play Play pause Pause S1 E10 May 10, 2024 Hatcheries - a solution or a problem? Hatcheries. It’s a contentious issue amongst the salmon angling community and with numbers of salmon continuing to drop, more and more anglers are asking can and shou...
play Play pause Pause S1 E9 May 03, 2024 The chemicals weren’t working, the fish were suffering and new ideas were needed Simen Saetre is the co-author (along with Kjetil Ostli) of ‘The New Fish: The Truth about Farmed Salmon and the Consequences We Can No Longer Ignore’ and joins Jim & D...
play Play pause Pause S1 E8 Apr 26, 2024 Matt Harris and why it's still the salmon above all others Matt Harris is the angler you want to fish with and hang out with in the hut or bar afterwards. He has a lifetime of stories of fish caught, every one as good as the l...
play Play pause Pause S1 E7 Apr 19, 2024 'When you catch your first fish, the fish catches you' Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard on fly fishing, salmon & saving the planet Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, wanted to live life and do things his own way. In his 80s now and having given Patagonia away to help save the planet, Yvon is m...
