Action, not more words: This profile of Zaida Zurita Huaitisa, a seaweed harvester in southern Chile, and a member of CONAPACH’s Executive Committee, is based on an interview by Brian O’ Riordan

O’Riordan, Brian (2006) Action, not more words: This profile of Zaida Zurita Huaitisa, a seaweed harvester in southern Chile, and a member of CONAPACH’s Executive Committee, is based on an interview by Brian O’ Riordan. Yemaya (22). pp. 5-6. ISSN 0973-1156

Text 920.YEM209.pdf Download (4kB)

Abstract

Zaida Zurita Huaitiao comes from the fishing community of Maullin in Chile’s southern Tenth Region, a community of shellfish divers (buzos and mariscadores) and seaweed harvesters (algueros and algueras). A fisherman’s wife and mother of six children, she is herself a fishworker. She works both as an alguera, cultivating and harvesting the seaweed gracillaria, and in a small aquaculture concession where she cultivates the mollusc, loco.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.YEM209
Keywords:	Yemaya, ICSF, Personalities, Women, Chile, Seaweed, Confederacion Nacional de Pescadores Artisanales de Chile (CONAPACH), Trawling, Small-scale Fisheries
Subjects:	Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Jeeva ICSF Rajan
Date Deposited:	23 Sep 2021 05:36
Last Modified:	22 Jul 2022 10:05
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/366

Actions (login required)

View Item