News
The planet is reaching its limit capacity to supply food for its growing population. Urgent action is needed, including shifting our consumption of land produce to produce of marine origin – managed in a sustainable manner.
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“We found seeds in the sea. It’s beautiful”. Ángel León (Aponiente***, El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz) presented his latest gastronomic achievement: using reed seeds to make bread and popcorn. “Reed seeds come from the marshes, an ecosystem we have to preserve as a generator of marine life in the Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar”.
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The benefits of eating fish are multiple – from improving eyesight to reduced skin ageing. And there’s more, it plays an essential role in reducing the number of deaths from cardiovascular diseases.
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The seas as her grandfather Captain Cousteau filmed them all but exist today. “Let’s not resign ourselves, let’s show our outrage and take action”.
Presentation
Scientists, fishermen and chefs will once again coincide in the Meeting of the Seas, a multidisciplinary and international event that will take place on July 13, 14 and 15 online.
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It provides oxygen and food, it helps control the climate and absorb excess carbon emissions — this makes the ocean our ally in the quest for a sustainable future. It’s up to all of us to look after it because “we all share it”.
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Geir Skeie, and his Pink Fish business project – a chain of establishments that “serve good food quickly”, as he likes to define it – was one of Meeting of the Seas’ protagonists. Online from Norway, Geir told the audience about his project and his plans for the future.
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Overfishing, unsustainable aquaculture practices or food waste are some issues that affect the fishing and food industries “and that people may not be aware of”. The scientist Enric Sala urged the chef Quique Dacosta to champion this cause. They agreed.
Awards
Spaniards Enric Sala and Manu San Felix lead one of the most powerful initiatives of National Geographic, the largest non-profit organization for the protection of the environment worldwide. Pristine Seas aims to protect the last wild places of the oceans, and will receive the special prize of the 2020 Meeting of the Seas.
Interview
Argentine chef Fer Rivarola, from El Baqueano restaurant -number 39 on the list of the 50 Best Restaurants in Latin America- will be one of the speakers attending the Encuentro de los Mares event. His commitment to the Argentine native product and his bond with nature and local producers have made him one of the most interesting chefs of Latin American lands. We discover his new projects.
Interview
Manuel Barange, director of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Policy and Resources Division since 2016, has just published the SOFIA 2020 report, an eagerly anticipated study on the state of world fisheries and aquaculture.
Interview
Marine biologists Enric Sala and Manu San Félix come to Meeting of the Seas to receive the Sartun Award for their Pristine Seas project aimed at ocean preservation. We talked to them about their work for the environment and how they see the future for the planet’s greatest source of life.
