Today is celebrated and viewed as World Fisheries Day (November 21st). This day shows the importance of sustainable fishing practices and conserving aquatic resources. This day was established in 1997 by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
Theme: Strengthening small-scale and sustainable fisheries.
Aim:
Promote sustainable fishing practice.
Conserve marine biodiversity and ecosystem.
Support the livelihood of the fishing community.
Ways to support:
Visit marine museums in your region on November 21st.
Choose sustainable seafood options.
Support local fishing communities.
Reduce plastic use.
How you can support as a local guide:
Visit marine museums and leave reviews/features they provide today.
Support local small marine-based Businesses near the coast @AjitThite.
This fish is commonly called as Lion Fish. Interesting facts is that this fish has no/less natural predators now. So the population of this fish has increased and they are hunting other endangered marine organisms. So the authorities around the world have been telling the fishing communities/marine protection communities around the world to catch this fish to reduce the population. Most restaurants around the world has been catching this fish and making delicious food with it ( after removing poisonous spines from its Dorsal fins).
This fish is in the Marine Research Aquarium in Kochi, Kerala, India. When I first visited that Aquarium, I found that itтАЩs not on the map and people have been missing this Aquarium. So glad to edit this place to the maps.
Interesting information about the Lion Fish @Rahul001 and overall excellent post
The banner photo is attractive and itтАЩs nice to see you promote local businesses today.
We have a Marine Museum in Pune inside the Sambhaji Park and I hope to visit there this week
Thank you @TusharSuradkar for your valuable comment. Also museum you shared has beautiful images. Also note: every marine museums under ICAR has marine rehabilitation centre next to it, which we can see marine organisms in their natural habitats.
Thank you @Ankan_S for your valuable comments. Actually thereтАЩs regulations from government for poisonous fish. Skilled and certified chefs are the one who allowed to cook those. Moreover Lion fish are a rare fish to get in the hands of many restaurants as most marine protection organisations removes it by hand than to caught by a fishing communities.
ThatтАЩs true what you said. Some years ago, I was in Wildlife Rescue Organisation and also in the diving team. We were told not to touch any organisms with hand, even though we had gloves. We would remove overly populated species thatтАЩs making harm to the ecosystem and also removes plastics and other un-natural materials from the bottoms.
Excellent post. ItтАЩs nice to see you are trying to support local businesses. @Rahul001 .
One of my memories of fishing is luckily from Fort Kochi, Kerala, when I first saw the big Chinese nets, what they called for fishing along the seacoast.
Thanks for wonderful image @Supriyadevkar and for your comments. I can see most marine museums have lion fish as a common one. Nice descriptive information about the museum you gave!.
Thank you for the comments @Annaelisa . Well lion fish is actually beautiful by apperance and deadly by nature. You are correct as over fishing is the reason why we decrease in most species. We mostly caught intermediate species in the food chain which can affects organisms thatтАЩs above the food chain.
Thank you @AjitThite for your kind words. Actually itтАЩs your initiative to support local businesses. I have lot say about Chinese net. Kochi was a main port in the period of Arab and Chinese Trade. We can find a lot of similar Chinese words even now in Malayalam language. At the time of Portuguese, Chinese people who was staying in kochi was deported but they leaved most of their tools and equipments.
Hello, very dear RahulтАж
Well conceived and presented post, dearтАж
The photos are contextual and self explanativeтАж
At many places, fishermen are deprived of their fair share of the price at which the fish is sold - mostly the middle men eat the cream - this is where our government should step in and help the fishermen/local men to get a better share.
The lion fish facts are interesting.
Thanks for sharing theseтАж
Most sincerely
Thank you @TravellerG for your valuable word! Actually the middle men is the issue, they force fishermen to get more fish. For them, more is better. If you gone to Vizhinjam during early morning, you can see that. But now authorities is watching careful not to overly catch. If they caught, they may loose their licence of their boat even.
I put the link in my comment box, but you have no idea what Menumkulam-Thumba Beach is.