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A day for the conservation of the mangrove ecosystem and the life around them

26 July 2022 Marianeli Torres Benavides

Each July 26, we celebrate the International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem, adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO in 2015; a day dedicated to raising awareness of the importance of mangroves as “a unique, special, and vulnerable ecosystem” and promote solutions for their management, conservation, and sustainable uses. Mangroves are rare …

Seaweed Industry or Seaweed Commons

5 July 2021

For the final webinar of Slow Fish 2021, all eyes were on seaweed, a new frontier in the ongoing battle between conservationists and the ever-hungry forces of globalized capitalism. The many benefits of seaweed: The first speaker was Amanda Swinimer of Dakini Tidal Wilds, a seaweed harvesting business she’s been running off the west coast of Vancouver Island, …

Cornucopia of Plastic: Christian Holstad at Slow Fish 2021

1 July 2021

American artist Christian Holstad has been dealing with themes relating to plastic and the sea for 15 years now, long before the blue planet effect saw plastic straws fall out of favor across the west. Now, as part of slow fish 2021, he brings his installation CONSIDER YOURSELF A GUEST (CORNUCOPIA) to Piazza De Ferrari, the most iconic square …

Humans and Oceans

25 June 2021 Piere Mollo

The sea, the oceans, the small ponds along the coast were my very first playground before they became the subject of my work. They have always been for me a source of inspiration and creation. In one single drop of water, I see a myriad of small marine life. I admire it, I am bewildered …

Think Eating Farmed Fish Can Save Wild Stocks? Think Again

6 November 2020

As part of Terra Madre, we’re hosting a webinar on November 10 in conjunction with Feedblack Global: Plenty of Fish in the Sea? Exploring Aquaculture’s Appetite for Wild Fish, focusing on the enormous and growing industry of farmed fish, particularly farmed salmon, which are fed on a diet of small, wild-caught “forage fish” that are …

Slow Fish Caribe: Local Lobster Party in Mexico

20 January 2020 By Amigos de Sian Ka’an y Alfonso S. Rocha Robles

Slow Food debuted the traceability system for the Presidium of the spiny lobster of Banco Chinchorro and Sian Ka’an. The Slow Fish Local Lobster Party celebrated the event on November 29 at the Riviera Maya in “Fairmont Mayakoba” (Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo). The hotel hosted the dinner with the goal to join efforts on …

Spyglass: keeping track of fishing crimes at sea

9 January 2020 Jack Coulton

Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing poses a serious threat to marine ecosystems and the livelihoods of coastal communities. The nature of the problem makes it particularly difficult to tackle, especially as it often happens on the high seas, where there is often no authority capable of monitoring or intervening. It may otherwise happen in …

Local Seafood Summit: Adding Value(s) to a Transforming Seafood System

22 October 2019

The fish we bring to the table is often seen simply as food, a source of protein useful to our diet, when in reality it encapsulates a system of relationships between chemical elements, human activities and environmental factors, which is so complex that it remains mostly unknown to us. The value chain behind a fish …

We can still help save our BC fishing communities!

6 August 2019

The sea is a free and open space, a common good that people have been harvesting since the dawn of time. But in our globalized and financialized world, the management of this shared heritage is based on legal frameworks that undermine small-scale fishers.
The disproportionate power of corporations and private actors is reinforced, while coastal communities are disenfranchised. In Canada, First Nations people are among the biggest victims of these policies.
But this broken system can—and must—be fixed!

Tourism is a long way from being sustainable! Interview with Ana Isabel Marquez

20 June 2019 Jack Coulton

Ana Isabel Marquez is an anthropologist from Colombia, born in the capital Bogota but raised on the island of Providencia. The island forms part of the Colombian department of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, a relatively little-known archipelago in the Western Caribbean Sea which is closer to Nicaragua than the Colombian mainland. The islands …