Futures Forum: Tourfish
Futures Forum: Tourfish in Hastings: 21st to 24th June: "raising awareness of inshore fishing and locally produced food - to promote the importance of these industries to local economies and responsible tourism."
Futures Forum: Sidmouth Trawlers: representing UK in-shore fishing
This week's Herald has covered the event:
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Here are some tweets from the event:
From the Geography of Inshore Fishing and Sustainability:
Great example of tourism and sustainable fishing working together -Haliotika, Port du Guilvinec in Brittany #tourfish pic.twitter.com/kvD9W4y5WO
From Matt Booth of Sidmouth and the Drill Hall Hub:
#TourFish partners Jo and Yasmin from Hastings visiting Sidmouth to meet Mary Bagwell @SidDrillHall @INTERREGTweets pic.twitter.com/5VAh5IKlwH
Twitter / Search - #tourfish
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Here's a report from GIFS:
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Geography of inshore fishing and sustainability
Fishing communities along the
Channel and southern North Sea are facing challenges and changes at a time of
strict regulation and measures to address the ‘crisis’ in fisheries.
GIFS is
a project co-funded by the Interreg IVa 2 Seas programme
and aims to understand the socio-economic and cultural importance of inshore
fishing to better inform fisheries policy, coastal regeneration strategies
and sustainable community development. Learn
more…
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Food Fisheries and
Tourism: New opportunities for sustainable development
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The Tourfish conference took place on
Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th of June 2014 in
Hastings. The event included demonstrations, exhibitions and interactive
conference sessions. The event focused on how agro-food, fisheries and tourism
can work together to deliver new opportunities for sustainable development
along the coast and in the towns and countryside of the 2 Seas area.
The first day of the conference started
with activities on the stade hall, including an indoor and outdoor Photography
exhibtion, chef demonstrations, a guided tour of the working fishing beach and
the stade, … The opening session of the conference in St. Mary in the Castle
included a welcome to Hastings speech, an introduction to TourFish, a cluster
programme of the GIFS project and Fish&Chips project. Followed by an
overview of the GIFS and Fish&Chips project.
Dr Harold Goodwin from the International
Centre for Responsible Tourism and Manchester Metropolitan University gave a
keynote speech about “Responsible Tourism, Sense of Place and Local Economic
Development”. In his speech he raised the important question “Does fishing
use tourism, does tourism use fishing?”.
The Vlaams Huis voor de Voeding (Flanders House of Food) led a
thematic session about “Boosting your regional identity: Discover how
regional branding can stimulate regional development, entrepreneurship and
innovation”. In this session the work of Flanders House of Food was
introduced.
The thematic session ended with a public
voting in which the public was asked to give their satisfaction about the way
their region is branded. In general the public was not that satisfied. In order
to have good branding, a triple helix of stakeholders: industry, government and
research needs to be involved which is often not the case.
The second thematic session “The
Taste of Place: A curious journey to the province of Zeeland in the
Netherlands” was led by the Municipality of Middelburg with Dr Gerard van Keken. Place
branding is more than just a brand, it deals with culture, distinctiveness,
sense of place and history. During his session Gerard van Keken included an
interactive quiz and finished with an Arnemuiden catwalk.
The second day of the conference started
with “Fish, Food and Festivals: Responsible tourism and fishing-led
community regeneration” led by Sidmouth Trawlers, Hastings Fishermen's Protection Society and University of Brighton. During this session 5 lessons learnt of
two very different fishing communties were presented: heritage, identity,
fishers and community knowledge, community ownership and connectivity.
The Bagwell’s fisher family was invited on
stage for an interview. Stan Bagwell’s wife, his daughter and grandson were
interviewed about their lives as fisher family. The daughter works in the
family fish shop and her son, Mark is a fisherman who works 6 days in a week
with days from 2:30 am till 10 pm.
Also in this session, Yasmin Ornsby from
the Hastings Fishermen’s Protection Society introduced the Classroom on the
Coast and Joy Collins talked about her experience as Hastings FLAG manager.
The next thematic session “Education, fish
and food: Raising awareness of food, sustainability and responsible tourism”
was led by University of Brighton, Hastings Fishermen's Protection Society,
Flanders House of Food and Nausicaa. During this session innovative
alternative educational models were introduced together with a demonstration of
the Classroom on the coast.
In this session, a fish filleting
demonstration was held by Tush from “Tush and Pat's Famous Fishermen’s Rolls”.
Clare Devereux, Policy Director of Food
Matters held a keynote speech about “Sustainable Food - Making the
Connection from Spade to Spoon”.
“From Catch to Plate & Plough to
Plate: Sustainable seafood and local land products for today and tomorrow” was the final thematic session led
by Nausicaa and Taste South East. In this session, the Mr Goodfish programe was introduced by Nausicaa together
with the Local catch programme introduced by Taste South
East.
The day ended with a concluding session
led by Tim Acott and Julie Urquhart from the University of Greenwich.
More information about Tourfish:
Food Fisheries and Tourism: New opportunities for sustainable development
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