The 400-year-old ocean secret that protected fish long before modern conservation existed

Since ancient times, communities living along the eastern parts of Indonesia have been employing a traditional system referred to as sasi in order to preserve the ocean waters on which they depended for their survival. Even before marine protection systems were invented and even before fishing quotas were established through conservation legislation, the local indigenous communities had established their unique practices on when and where harvesting of fish and other sea creatures would take place.

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