Why this Year Mattered for Dried Fish Matters This year marked a defining moment in the journey of Dried Fish Matters. What stood out was not only the scale of research undertaken, but the ways in which that research travelled: into classrooms, communities, policy conversations, creative spaces, and concrete interventions on the ground. Across countries […]
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We are pleased to highlight a new publication by DFM researchers Huan Sun, Dr. Derek S. Johnson, and Dr. Rotimi E. Aluko, titled “Structural and functional properties of dried fish protein isolates,” published in AIMS Agriculture and Food (Vol. 10, Issue 3). The article brings an important biochemical perspective to our understanding of dried fish […]
Dried Fish Matters (DFM) PhD candidate at the University of Manitoba Jessie Jr. Varquez has won the photography contest organized as part of the ninth Global Conference on Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries (GAF9), hosted at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Pathum Thani, Thailand. Jessie’s winning photograph (below) was captured during the early […]
A recent publication by Sokmoly Uon, DFM Cambodia student researcher, and Professor Kyoko Kusakabe, DFM Cambodia Lead and faculty at the Asian Institute of Technology, examines how Cambodian women sustain prahok which is a fermented fish paste central to the country’s cuisine and identity—amid declining fish resources in the Tonle Sap Lake region. Published in […]
At the 9th Global Conference on Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries (GAF9), hosted at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Dried Fish Matters (DFM) organized a special two-part panel titled Gender Dynamics in Social Economies of Dried Fish in Asia. The panel brought together DFM scholars, collaborators, and graduate researchers working across South and Southeast […]
On June 9, 2025, a consultative workshop titled “From Fishers to Consumers: Seafood Value Chain” was held at the Snehakunja Trust in Honnavara, Karnataka, with support from the Dried Fish Matters (DFM) project. The gathering brought together about 45 participants, including fishers from all three coastal districts of Karnataka, fisherwomen, government representatives, NGOs, and academics. […]
The MARE 2025 Conference – People and the Sea XIII, hosted at the University of Amsterdam, marked an important collective moment for Dried Fish Matters (DFM) not only through paper presentations across conference sessions, but also through dedicated spaces for collaboration, synthesis, and forward planning. Dried Fish Matters (DFM) participants presented their research on dried […]
We are pleased to share that Dried Fish Matters research was featured in Divya Bhaskar, one of Gujarat’s most widely read newspapers. The article, published in the Vapi edition on December 13, 2023, highlights the enduring barter system between fishing communities and Adivasi farmers in Umargam taluka of Valsad district in Gujarat, India – an […]