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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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    Ice Utilization in the Fisheries Sector of Kerala
    (Society of Fisheries Technologists (India), 2021) Geethalakshmi, V.; Nair, V. Radhakrishnan; Gopal, Nikita
    India is one of the top fish producing countries in the world, with its current fish production at 11.42 million mt (Fig. 1). The 1990’s saw a boost in aquaculture production from India (Fig. 2) increasing the total fish production manifold from a mere 75,000 MT in the 1950-51 to 4.87 lakh and presently the country stands third in fish production and second in aquaculture production in the world.