Bren Smith

Bren Smith is an aquaculture professional and former commercial fisherman, best known for pioneering Regenerative Ocean Farming via co-founding the non-profit GreenWave.

Born in Maddox Cove, Newfoundland, Canada, Smith left school aged 14 to become a commercial fisherman, plying his trade in the Grand Banks and the Bering Sea.[1][2] Having left the commercial fishing and subsequently the fish farming industries, he founded the Thimble Island Ocean Farm, on the Thimbles Islands in Long Island Sound, before co-founding GreenWave to promote the co-existent aquaculture of kelp and shellfish by local communities.

Smith gave one of the two 35th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lectures, organised by the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, entitled Ecological Redemption: Ocean Farming in the Era of Climate Change.[3]

Smith graduated from Cornell Law School.[4]

  1. ^ "About the author: Bren Smith". Penguin Random House. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  2. ^ Rose, Hilary (15 October 2019). "The ocean farmer who says the sea can save the planet". The Times. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Ecological Redemption: Ocean Farming in the Era of Climate Change". Schumacher Center for a New Economics. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
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