This was the title of the first Big Fish seminar of 2022, which was co-hosted with Ca’ Foscari University of Venice on 19th January.

There are two Worlds in regard to how fish is consumed and this seminar considered both. As demand for processed products has grown so has waste but also opportunities to add value to lower value byproducts. The GAIN project has looked at what it will take to reduce such waste in seafood systems in Europe through scientific and technical innovations, new policies and economic instruments, and the mitigation of social constraints.

But in another World people DO eat the whole fish because it is culturally preferred and can deliver more nutritional benefit. Our panel reflected these two Worlds and the different approaches to taking waste out of seafood systems and optimizing benefits for the Global population challenged by the environmental impacts of food production and malnutrition.

The panellists for this seminar were Mike Berthet (Managing Director of Aquaesea), Dave Love (Senior Scientist at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Lyndon Paul (MD and Founder of Danish Care Foods Ltd in Cambodia), Nireka Weeratunge (Research Fellow in the Centre for Ethnic Studies in Columbo, Sri Lanka), and Jimmy Young (Emeritus Professor, University of Stirling).

For further information please visit the Big Fish Series Webpage