fábulas sustentáveis

It has been some time since I have started to read this book : It is written by a journalist that likes to fish. He selected the four fish that are coming to dominate the modern seafood market and are visible footprints: salmon, sea bass, cod, and tuna. He tried to learn more about them and gives us general information about the way they have been produced. It has examples and facts about how people started to use them and how they have turned to be the most important fish in the world. I liked the way he ends the book, giving us the precious value of having a fish to eat: Fish: a crop, harvested from the sea that magically grew itself back every year.  A crop that never required planting.  The historical vocabulary around fish echoes this sentiment.  Think in the word “seafood”: how many genera and species are described by these two opaque syllables? Equivalents in other cultures are no less vague or misleading.  In most of the Western European...

Life in Lisbon from a sunlight box. Swallows give hope for the next season. Tejo river is the best mate.  Some new resolutions for the new year in the new life of the same person, me: 1. start the days exercising the body 2. finish the days exercising the mind 3. knit more 4. read the news in the newspapers, not online 5. watch movies in the cinema, not online 6. never watch TV 6. eat less animals, most of it seafood 7. use as less as possible the car 8. change home when going abroad 9. receive coachsurfers 10. be happy, every day must be cheerful.

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday released its environmental assessment of the AquaAdvantage salmon, a faster-growing fish which has been subject to a contentious, yearslong debate at the agency. The document concludes that the fish "will not have any significant impacts on the quality of the human environment of the United States." Regulators also said that the fish is unlikely to harm populations of natural salmon, a key concern for environmental activists.  . .. The FDA will take comments from the public on its report for 60 days before making it final.  . .. If FDA regulators clear the salmon, as expected, it would be the first genetically altered animal approved for food anywhere in the world. It was in the news in the last year but it is about not a new subject. It seems that this new nightmare will come true. After this, it might be just a question of time to be approved. How are they going to label an OGM fish in the supermarket? And is this fish s...

The light, the places, the people are not the same. I'm not the same. The fish is not the same. One year passed between here and there, now and before, me and you... A glance of Fábulas in 2012: - saw snowing for the first time - went up north in Norway to work in Nofima (Tromso) - attend the World Fisheries Conference - attend a workshop for young researchers about food production in EU - ate grilled sardines in St. António (Lisbon) - thought to give up the PhD - felt the most unhappy PhD student - attend a course about ethics in fish production - went to the cod land and the most beautiful place ever been: Lofoten, in Norway - felt the most happy PhD student - launched an online survey - lived in a sustainable farm for one month - returned to live in Portugal Make your wishes. Write them down. And do not forget to make them come true. Dreams are not real and time will never stop. Much love. And a very enlightened new year to you.