Hello Fish Fan,
Welcome to the fifth edition of Fishy News, the newsletter of the Which Fish? campaign providing facts about species, recipes, updates on participants' activities, news about the campaign, ideas to raise awareness of the campaign and more. In other words, everything you need to run this campaign... at your zoo or aquarium!
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PARTICIPANTS' ACTIVITIES
In 2021 Punta Verde Zoo (Italy) will organize family card game tournaments in collaboration with the National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics.
To increase awareness on the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) and create an impact lasting beyond the end of the project, FAIRSEA, an Interreg project, developed Fish ’n Ships, a card game reproducing the Adriatic and Mediterranean marine food web and fisheries complexity. The concept of the game is similar to the integrated science-based platform developed in FAIRSEA as a support tool for fisheries management. It reflects the complexity of species, fisheries, environmental variabilities and socio-economic pressures.
Fish ‘n Ships targets young generations (> 8 years) but is appealing at any age. It is developed to explain the variety of marine species, their different roles in the food web, the complexity of fishing gears with their targets and their discards. As in real life, unforeseen events (bonus and malus) can affect positively or negatively the marine ecosystem of players, making fishing more or less difficult. Each player can choose their own strategy, like fishermen do, but chances of winning are higher for those that balance best the conservation of ecological components of the sea with a sustainable exploitation. Exactly the objective we would like to reach for the Adriatic Sea and other seas worldwide and that is still too rarely applied.
What a brilliant activity! Three hundred copies per language (Italian English, Croatian) were printed and distributed for free to schools, educational/cultural organizations and associations. If your institution is interested in the game, please contact the OGS team at urp@inogs.it with the subject "Request of the FAIRSEA communication tool Fish n' Ships".
Design: Diego Manna with Graphic by Roberta Zucca (White Cocal Press); co-design and scientific revision: Simone Libralato, Davide Agnetta, Igor Celić, Giulia Massolino, Diego Panzeri (National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics – OGS).
REMINDER
As part of the campaign, all participants made commitments to take action to improve the sustainability of marine and aquatic resources used at their institution, and to inform the public about the campaign. It's been a challenging year, and we would like to know how everyone is getting on so far.
Please click here to complete our first year campaign survey. The survey will take around 15-20 minutes to complete, depending on your answers, and will be open until 31 March. Thanks in advance for your time.
SUSTAINABLE FEED VIEWED BY...
Rotterdam Zoo, Which Fish campaign's participant
Sander van Lopik, aquarist at Rotterdam Zoo, shared his view on the importance for the industry to work on a certification of fish meal including products in all animal feeds as soon as possible. Not only for zoos and aquariums but also for pet owners because everyone should be able to make a sustainable choice.
© OECD/FAO (2020)
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT...
the European squid?
The squid industry is an increasing market, dominated by Spain, Japan, and China. In Europe alone, 173,000 tons of squid were caught in 2018.
© Kåre Telnes
RECIPE: Pout and smoked bacon ravioli, watercress velouté with lemon confit
Ingredients (4 people)
For the ravioli dough:
250 g flour • 200 g egg yolk • 1 pinch of salt
For the trim:
400 g pout • 50 g smoked bacon • 1 bunch of chives • 1 egg yolk • 1 pinch of smoked paprika
For the watercress velouté:
20 g butter • 2 bunches of watercress •
2 white onions • 50 g leek white • 1 lemon confit • 10 cl of poultry juice
80 cl of liquid cream • Salt, Pepper
Time 1 h 30
1- Knead the flour with the egg yolk and salt. Set aside in a cool place in plastic film for 1 hour.
2- Chop the pout fillet with a knife, add the chopped chives, chopped bacon, egg yolk and smoked paprika. It is strongly advised not to add salt and pepper.
3- Roll out the dough in the rolling mill and place the stuffing. Shape the ravioli.
4- Wash and sort the watercress: the tails on one side, the leaves on the other. Cut the onions and the leek white into small cubes and melt them in butter. Add the watercress tails and cook for 5 minutes.
5- Moisten with the poultry juice and the cream. Leave to cook for 20
minutes. Mix and filter.
Blanch the watercress leaves for a few minutes then add them to the velouté, with the skin of the candied lemon. Mix everything together.
6- Cook the ravioli in simmering salted water with a vegetable stock cube.
Serve with the warm velouté. Enjoy!
EVENT
At the end of January, Attica Zoo hosted the annual GAIA (Global Awareness Investigation & Action) Greece Youth Symposium – an international programme for 12-18 year old students to exchange knowledge on environmental research and good practices.
Students, educators, scientists and other professionals from all over the world shared their work online. A lot of different topics were discussed but one caught our attention more intensely. Gabriella Dallas, a Youth Service Learning Program student at the zoo, presented “The Albatross and the Fisherman”, the story she created in support of our campaign and aiming at influencing consumers to choose sustainably sourced fish and help protect the oceans. How inspiring!
View the video below and visit the resource page to download the PDF and Powerpoint versions.
You can check the rest of the student-led projects here: http://bit.ly/GAIA2021.
If your education department is interested in joining the GAIA network, please contact Dr Georgina Spyres, Head of Education and Research at Attica Zoo and GAIA Greece Director.
© Attica Zoo
WHAT'S NEW?
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