Dried Fish Matters
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.
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.
Taking stock of our achievements at the midpoint of the Dried Fish Matters Partnership Grant
Two research teams in Bangladesh, from Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) and Sher-E-Bangla Agricultural University (SAU), have separately developed Chanacur (popular snacks), Biscuits and energy bars from dried fish. The BAU team use kechki fish (Corica Soborna), a small indigenous fish with high nutrient content, to make Chanacur and Bars, whereas the SAU team uses Panga […]
A recent paper in Maritime Studies by Madu Galappaththi (DFM student), Andrea M. Collins, Derek Armitage, and Prateep Nayak (DFM Co-Investigator) explores gender relations in dried fish value chains through the lens of social wellbeing and intersectionality.