Sat, 07/10/2021 - 12:00
Highlights
Speakers and panelists at two webinars on ethical and inclusive communication on small-scale fisheries discussed ways to lift up positive and accurate narratives to support thriving fisheries for food and nutrition security
For thousands of years, Arctic communities like the Inuits and Chukchi have hunted seals and whales a food source and vital part of their culture and society.
They are the first and foremost caretakers of good and ethical relations with these animals.
“These communities have an incredibly long engagement with the ocean, and sometimes 10,000 years of uninterrupted knowledge,” said Tero Munsten, President, SnowChange Cooperative, who is also an ice fisher in Finland.