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    Ethnic Foods and Food based Traditional Knowledge of Fishing community in Kerala, India
    (Society of Fisheries Technologists (India), 2021) Ashok, Arathy; Sreejith, S; Benjamin, Diana; Bindu, J; Gopal, Nikita
    Ethnic food systems represent the culture, traditions and customs a community followsand can be considered to be on par with the ethno botanical food and medicinal knowledge. Fishing communities also possesses knowledge on the nutritional and medicinal values related to the diverse resources of the sea. Proper documentation of such systems can refurbish our food habits and can act as repositories for ensuring that these are back in the culinary practices. .This communication presents some of the information that was documented from a study carried out in six coastal districts of Kerala during 2015-2016 in 47 fishing villages focussed on the various indigenous traditional knowledge practised in fishing and highlights the various traditional fish based foods in the community. Distinct beliefs regarding nutritional and medicinal use of different fishes along different places in Kerala have also been discussed in this paper.
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    Gender in Fisheries: A Future Roadmap
    (CIFT,COCHIN, 2012) Gopal, Nikita; Ashok, Arathy; Jeyanthi, P.; Gopal, T. K. Srinivasa; Meenakumari, B
    Research has proven that women can contribute to the agricultural sector and their contribution in increasing food production can further be enhanced if their access to resources improves. Similar evidence needs to be generated in the fisheries by focussed studies, cutting across all important core and allied sectors. It has also been recognized that for sustainability of fishery resources, production and utilization, the efforts of both men and women are required. The need for generating sex disaggregated data for policy support also has long been advocated. Only hard data can support policy formulation and initiatives and instruments can be tailored to tackle specific issues. Development initiatives based on strong information backed policy framework will only be sustainable in the long term. Rigorous methods and different models of research can be applied for developing indicators and benchmarks. The future road map to gender in fisheries would thus be an approach that is holistic covering all major production and allied sectors, analyzing and putting the issues in proper perspective, generating sufficient and relevant data, clear policy; and targeted development action. Gender studies have to be inter disciplinary (Williams, 2012) with "better conceptual frameworks and strong social science".