Scientific American’s Science Quickly podcast has released a new episode, “Sustainable Fishing with Ancient Chambers and Ocean Tides: A group on the islands of Penghu is restoring ancient fishing weirs, hoping to preserve the sustainable fishing practice and attract ecotourism” featuring Cultural Heritage Framework Programme (CHFP) affiliated scholars Prof Cynthia Neri Zayas of the University of the Philippines and Dr Paul Montgomery of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. The podcast discusses aspects of fish weir archaeology, Indigenous communities and coastal ecology, topics of interest to the CHFP affiliated Indigenous People, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Climate Change: The Iconic Underwater Cultural Heritage of Stone Tidal Weirs Project Group.

Listen to the episode: Scientific American: Sustainable Fishing with Ancient Chambers and Ocean Tides.

Read more about the project: CHFP: Indigenous People, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Climate Change: The Iconic Underwater Cultural Heritage of Stone Tidal Weirs.