The latest Working Paper from Dried Fish Matters identifies key locations of the dried fish economy in Bangladesh.
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Dried fish in West Bengal, India
The first Scoping Report by the DFM West Bengal team explores the role of dried fish in two coastal districts, South 24 Parganas and East Medinipur.
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Dried Fish Consumption in Myanmar
DFM and NAG have published results of the first ever dedicated large-scale survey of dried fish consumption habits in Myanmar. This study reveals numerous important insights into role and significance of dried fish consumption in the country, which might be missed or underreported when using less specialized survey instruments.
Microplastics pollution of aquatic environments is a global concern: in 2010, about 275 million tons of plastic products were manufactured throughout the world and significant portions of them ended up in marine environments. New research undertaken by DFM researchers and colleagues at Bangladesh Agricultural University confirms the presence of microplastics in two popular species of dried fish sold in Bangladesh: Bombay duck and ribbon fish.
Sisir Pradhan, Prateep Nayak, and Derek Armitage, all from the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo, have recently published an article in Current Research in Environmental Sustainability encouraging us to take a social-ecological systems (SES) perspective on dried fish value chains.
The DFM West Bengal team hosted a webinar with Amrita Sen on the political ecology of the Indian Sundarbans. If you missed it live, the webinar recording is available to watch on the DFM YouTube channel.
Dried Fish Matters has contributed three short videos to the TBTI Blue Justice “virtual tour” for World Fisheries Day 2021. These videos are available to watch now on the TBTI YouTube channel.
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DFM at IMBeR
DFM hosted a session on Dried Small Fish at the IMBeR West Pacific Symposium, November 25. Thanks to all who contributed to the session and to all who attended! This meeting provided an important preliminary synthesis of research data on the social economy of dried small fish in this region.