Yoshitaka Ota is director (policy) of the Nippon Foundation-University of British Columbia Nereus Program. He is a senior research associate at the University of British Columbia. His main research area is the anthropology of fishing, assessing the current global outlook of Indigenous fishing and coastal food security. He also works on ocean governance and policy, marine spatial planning and knowledge communication. https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/contributor/yoshitaka-ota/rss en Fisheries Tue, 04 Jul 2017 05:00:04 +0000 Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, Yoshitaka Ota https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/articles/2017/07/04/for-indigenous-communities-fish-mean-much-more-than-food https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/articles/2017/07/04/for-indigenous-communities-fish-mean-much-more-than-food THE CONVERSATION: According to recent research, local seafood is not only crucial to coastal native communities’ health, but also sustains their societies and worldview.