Nico is an organizer, scholar, and sometimes fisherman on his home island of Culebra in Puerto Rico. He share his insights on the limitations and possibilities for seafood sovereignty in the context of rapid privatization of public beaches and docks by wealthy Americans new to the island and the skyrocketing prices of local homes converted to Airbnbs. We also talk about colonial policies limiting food sovereignty including PROMESA and the Jones Act, the powerful history Puerto Rican resistance, and the amazing work that the Asociación Pesquera de Culebra (Fishing Association of Culebra) is doing to advance a solidarity-based economy and reclaim seafood sovereignty.

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