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.
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.
The District Fishermen’s Youth Welfare Association (DFYWA), a civil society member of the Dried Fish Matters partnership, has recently released the report “Living on the edge: Perspectives of the small-scale women fish processors of northern coastal Andhra Pradesh, India”. The report is now available for download from DFM.
Alexia Pigeault, student in the International Master of Science in Marine Biological Resources joint European Master’s program (IMBRSea), recently completed her thesis on communication in the Dried Fish Matters project supervised by Prof. Fabiana Li.