Seafood consumption 15 times higher among Indigenous than non-Indigenous people (UBC - University of British Columbia)
(World News Science)

(Source: UBC - University of British Columbia) Local fish on sale at the Saturday market in Kavieng, Papua New Guinea. Credit: Colette Wabnitz Coastal Indigenous people eat on average 15 times more seafood per person than non-Indigenous people in the same country, according to new research from the University of British Columbia. The findings highlight the need to consider food sovereignty and cultural identity as part of fisheries policy and Indigenous human rights. In the first global-scale analysis of its kind, the study estimated that coastal Indigenous people consume 74 kilograms of seafood per capita, compared to the global average...