Maine Science Podcast - Walt Golet, episode 106

A conversation with Walt Golet, an Assistant Professor at the University of Maine and Director of the Pelagic Fisheries Lab.

Walt’s interest in, and enthusiasm for, larger fish species - think tuna and shark - was fostered in childhood, inspired in part by his father's work in commercial fishing and charter boat operations. Studying these larger fish can be difficult, given their wide-ranging movements, and advances in engineering (tagging) and science (genomics) has made this research "easier" to do.

This conversation was recorded in September 2026.