Emily De Sousa is a master’s student in the Conservation of Change Lab and part of the inaugural graduate student cohort for Coastal Routes. Yesterday, she accepted the Science Policy Award of Excellence Award, Youth Category, from the Canadian Science Policy Centre. Her proposal, titled “Eliminating Seafood Fraud: A Fishy Approach to Food Policy,” offered a robust, science-based proposal to enhance traceability, labeling, and the use of DNA barcoding in the fisheries supply chain.
Emily joined Coastal Routes in 2019 and is developing a research project that looks at values, policies, and governance as they relate to small-scale and alternative seafood marketing chains, e.g., community supported fisheries. Recently, she also attended the annual Local Catch meeting in Portland, Oregon. Local Catch is is a community-of-practice made up of fisherman, organizers, researchers, and consumers from across North America that are committed to providing local, healthful, low-impact seafood via community supported fisheries and direct marketing arrangements in order to support healthy fisheries and the communities that depend on them.
You can follow Emily on Twitter and Instagram at @airplaneavocado. She also runs “Airplanes and Avocados”, a successful sustainable travel blog.