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Gulf of Fonseca Foodways

Golfo de Fonseca

Coastal

⚠ HONDURAS’S PACIFIC SHORE IS ABOUT 160 KM LONG AND IS A WHOLE SEPARATE FOOD SYSTEM. Choluteca and Valle, on a gulf shared with EL SALVADOR and NICARAGUA — one estuary, three countries, and a maritime boundary that was settled by the International Court of Justice in 1992 as a zone of joint sovereignty. The foodway: MANGROVE estuary, CURILES (black ark clams) gathered by hand in the mud, mostly by women; CONCHAS, punches (mangrove crab), shrimp, snook, corvina, sierra; CEVICHE and sopa marinera; SALT produced by solar evaporation on the flats; melon, sugarcane, cashew and sesame on the coastal plain. ⚠ INDUSTRIAL SHRIMP FARMING transformed this coast from the 1980s and its conversion of mangrove is a documented conflict with the artisanal gatherers who depend on the mangrove standing.

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  • The Honduran Pacific coastline on the Gulf of Fonseca is approximately 160 km long. The International Court of Justice held in 1992 that the Gulf is subject to a regime of joint sovereignty among Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Curiles (black ark clams) are gathered by hand from the mangrove, documented as predominantly women’s work, and solar salt is produced on the flats. Industrial shrimp aquaculture expanded from the 1980s and its conversion of mangrove is documented as in conflict with artisanal gathering. documented

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