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'Buying a Pig in a Poke': The Problem of Elasmobranch Meat Consumption in Southern Brazil

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العنوان: 'Buying a Pig in a Poke': The Problem of Elasmobranch Meat Consumption in Southern Brazil
المؤلفون: Hugo Bornatowski, Raul Rennó Braga, Carolina Kalinowski, Jean Ricardo Simões Vitule
المصدر: Ethnobiology Letters, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 196-202 (2015)
بيانات النشر: Society of Ethnobiology, 2015.
سنة النشر: 2015
المجموعة: LCC:Human ecology. Anthropogeography
مصطلحات موضوعية: Conservation, Environmental education, Elasmobranchs, Fisheries management, Food mislabeling, Supermarkets, Human ecology. Anthropogeography, GF1-900
الوصف: In Brazil, the demand for sustainably certified seafood is increasing and retailers have promised to source all seafood from sustainable sources by 2015. In the southern portion of the country, elasmobranch meat is sold as cação, and consumers are often unaware that cação refers to any type of elasmobranch. The present study used questionnaires to investigate the lay public’s knowledge of elasmobranch meat sold in a Brazilian city. Shoppers were surveyed at supermarkets in Curitiba, the largest city in southern Brazil. The study revealed that people do not link commercialized cação meat to sharks and rays (Elasmobranchii), with more than half of respondents who claimed to have already eaten cação did not think they had ever eaten shark or ray. The educational profile of interviewees suggests that this lack of knowledge may be even more common in other segments of Brazilian society. Therefore, we suggest that ecological information about elasmobranchs should be included in Brazilian elementary and high school curricula. Such a measure has the potential to modify behavior, create awareness, and stimulate responsibility throughout society, with the primary goal of reducing shark meat consumption and, ultimately, guaranteeing the long term conservation of marine resources.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2159-8126
Relation: http://ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/ebl/article/view/451; https://doaj.org/toc/2159-8126
DOI: 10.14237/ebl.6.1.2015.451
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/7ab8e4ea1bf0444397cf4abcad4da1c0
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.7ab8e4ea1bf0444397cf4abcad4da1c0
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:21598126
DOI:10.14237/ebl.6.1.2015.451