Slow Fish Campaign Reaches American Shores

This past weekend, Slow Fish – Slow Food’s international campaign for sustainable fishing – was officially launched in the US.

The launch will see a series of events taking place, starting on September 14 during the annual Fishtival event in New Hampshire. It will include activities such as the first ever youth-led Seafood Throwdown: a unique cooking competition to highlight the importance of local seafood in restoring a healthy ocean ecosystem. Inspired by the TV program, Iron-Chef, two young chefs will compete to see who can prepare the best locally caught seafood dish using items from the local farmers' market.

Others events taking place will be a documentary film screening, a fish filleting demonstration and workshop, and a ‘Merroir Manifesto' community discussion.

The local community – fishers, chefs, youth, local sea and land organizations, and consumers – will come together throughout the weekend to discuss key questions such as: Why and how should we embrace local community-based fishing? How can we begin bridging the gap between consumers and community fishers? How can we improve policy to assure long-term vitality of family-owned fisheries? How can we inspire more chefs to begin working with locally caught seafood?

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