I did! There is also a detectible spike in national level seafood consumption data around lent (the spike moves from year to year depending on when lent falls). Note though that Phil A. O'Fish the cod has since been replaced by pollock.

From www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Working on blue foods? Consider submitting to our new special issue in Environmental Research: Food Systems - Blue Foods in Local to Global Food Systems.

The journal is society owned and the papers are OA, with OA fees currently waived.

iopscience.iop.org/collections/...

Interactions between different areas of food systems mean change in one area can directly or indirectly affect another. The Countdown’s 2024 report shows that governance and resilience are powerful leverage points that could trigger positive cascading effects across many food system indicators.

New Countdown Initiative paper which:
- Presents the first indicator monitoring update across 5 themes (more below)
- Provides an expert elicitation of interactions across indicators.
- Reviews literature & country case studies

Paper: tinyurl.com/CountdownMS
Website: tinyurl.com/countdownweb...

Why did the salmon cross the road?

📸: Bobbi Cantellay via @SeattleRefined

📣 Blue Food Futures Program is excited to announce its inaugural Research Grant Program! This 12 month research grant is designed for early career scholars dedicated to advancing the role of blue foods in food systems transformation.

Learn more: bit.ly/BFFPFellow
Read about BFFP: lnkd.in/ehD65iir

There is a great lineup of keynote speakers, including @christinahicks.bsky.social who will be presenting "Diverse Food Systems Support Justice and Nutrition"

Fisheries and aquaculture folks, check out Theme 7: Sustainability, equitability, and safety of ocean-based food systems

IUU and supply chain folks, check out Theme 6: Transparency in the fisheries sector, including illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing

Last call: Abstracts for the One Ocean Science Congress 4-6 June in Nice, France are due tomorrow (14 Nov 2024, 13:00 CET)

OOSC aims to provide the latest science on a wide range of ocean issues across 10 themes to inform the UN Ocean Conference

one-ocean-science-2025.org

Flagging 2 themes ⬇️

Tariffs are in the news & recent appointments suggest a hardline on China. Back in 2019, @dochfroehlich.bsky.social, @trevorabranch.bsky.social and I looked at the trade war with China

www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Trade is central to calculating apparent consumption. We show declines in marine capture consumption and the rise of inland aquaculture consumption in recent decades, allowing per capita consumption to increase.

However, geographic and sector sourcing vary greatly across regions.

While trade within regions remains important, Asia has become the dominant importer from several other regions and aquaculture trade within Asia has been growing rapidly.

Since we differentiate flows by species, we can also show how the dominant traders and species differ by sector.

For example, marine capture trade involves a much wider range of species than marine aquaculture and Asia is much more central in trade of inland species.

We show that aquatic food has become increasingly globalized and although capture still makes up the majority of trade, aquaculture trade tripled from 1996-2020.

Sectors differ in export orientation: ~1/3 of marine capture is exported whereas only around 7% of inland aquaculture is exported

Applications due in 10 days for the 2024 ARTIS Exchange!

We'll bring together ECRs at a hackathon-style event to tackle pressing sustainability & health questions using the new aquatic food trade database. Travel support provided by NSF

More info & apply: artisdata.weebly.com/artis-exchan...