Freshwater and marine fisheries, fishers’ livelihoods, and resource depletion.
Foodthink Says As the Qingming Festival approaches, whether for travel or tomb-sweeping, many will head to the countryside for a few meals of “farmhouse food”. This year’s Spring Festival was no different for the author of this piece. This account of dining during a return to the village for the…
Foodthink Says This is the third field report from Foodthink’s visits to small-scale fishing communities in southern Thailand. The first two pieces explored how fishermen joined forces to oust commercial trawlers, form a national alliance, and actively engage in legislative and policy advocacy, and how ‘community conservation areas’ empowered locals…
Foodthink Commentary This is the second set of field notes from our visit to fishing communities in southern Thailand. This January, Foodthink accompanied Blue Climate Partners into fishing villages along Thailand’s southern coast to observe how small-scale fishers safeguard marine resources. Across three mangrove communities on the Andaman Sea coast,…
Foodthink Says In January this year, Foodthink joined Blue Climate Partners to visit fishing villages in southern Thailand to understand how small-scale fishers and grassroots NGOs are joining forces to combat overfishing and achieve a win-win for both conservation and livelihoods by establishing “community-managed protected areas”. Journeying from Trang to…
Foodthink Says In China, the Atlantic salmon is better known by a simpler name: salmon. Last week, we published an article on salmon farming titled Is Salmon Truly “Free”?. So, what exactly is the plight of wild salmon today? We may well have forgotten what genuine wild salmon are, and…
I. Typhoon shifts south; force 12 winds lay siege to farming communities “With this typhoon, farming communities have suffered most.” In the early hours of the 25th, Hao Nan, a humanitarian disaster relief specialist and director of Zhuominxinyuan, sent a voice message to the Foodthink editorial team, speaking with earnest…
On 4 February, the Thai Department of Fisheries announced the successful development of a genetically modified Blackchin tilapia. The offspring resulting from crosses between this modified tetraploid tilapia and naturally occurring diploid tilapia are sterile. The government hopes this approach will help curb the spread of this African invasive species…
Although the Paris Olympics concluded last week, the doping controversies remain far from settled. Amidst the uproar, at least three incidents tied to food safety have surfaced: In the end, all three cases were ruled to be the result of consuming meat products “contaminated” with doping substances, rather than deliberate…
“When yellow croaker graces the table, it’s worth its weight in gold.” In Zhejiang and Shanghai, wild large yellow croaker has long been a traditional banquet centrepiece, chosen as much for its auspicious symbolism as its flavour. Along China’s coastline, perhaps no other fish has experienced a fate so fraught…
