Waste. It's everywhere, even with our seafood.
One person's trash is another person's treasure, as the old proverb goes. Whether dealing with inedible or less appetising parts of seafood, small business owners, conservation organisations, researchers, and communities are showing that seafood waste doesn't have to be wasteful.
Healthy treats for hungry pups
When COVID-19 sent Lisbon into lockdown in 2020, Daria Demidenko found herself at home with her two dogs for months. "I was training my dogs a lot and started to look for healthy options to give them as treats," she says. The options, she notes, were slim, which is why she set about learning to make some herself. The key ingredient? Fish waste from a local sushi bar.
"I was given fish heads, skin, bones, and other parts of the fish that are discarded," Demidenko explains. With some boiling and crushing, and the addition of flour and other ingredients such as chia seeds, Demidenko created dog biscuits. Next, she learned to dehydrate skins to make chips. Then she started Sancho Pancho, a business dedicated to using food waste to create healthy treats for dogs and cats.
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