CANADA-SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (C-SPOD) Apia, Samoa
NEWS RELEASE March 28, 2001 Suva, Fiji Islands
TO HANDLE SEAFOOD SAFELY
Pacific primary school children are learning to properly handle seafood through a series of Canadian-funded storybooks aimed to improve hygiene and reduce sickness, as they trace a fish's journey from the fisherman's net to the family dinner table.
The books, released late last year, teach kids how to tell a good fish from a bad fish, the nutritional value of seafood as part of a healthy diet, and explain the concept of bacteria as an agent of spoilage and illness.
Best of all, it's in a language that kids can understand: "Let me see...eyes bright and shiny, skin firm not slimy, good fresh color, no smelly guts inside -- it's a beauty!"
Tony Chamberlain, author of On the Other Hand, The Very Best, and Smart Shopper, is the post-harvest fisheries lecturer at the University of the South Pacific's (USP...