August 23, 2022 — A social media campaign is kicking off this week to raise awareness for community-based fisheries across North America.
“It’s a campaign to promote local and regional values-based small scale seafood businesses across North America,” said Paloma Henriques, a graduate assistant at the University of Maine.
This is the second year of the campaign that started after researchers found the pandemic highlighted the need to build resilient local and regional seafood systems.
“The global supply chains really faltered and struggled. If you’re looking at seafood, it’s one of the most highly traded commodities. A fish can be caught in one country processed in another and consumed in a third country,” Henriques said.