Indigenous fishermen tackle food security and jobs in a town where one in four people is unemployed

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Poor public health, lack of affordable food and unemployment are big issues for this West Arnhem Land community, but local fishers are building a business that can help.

Poor nutrition has links to poor health outcomes and a higher burden of disease in Aboriginal communities, according to research from the Darwin-based"It's good medicine, it makes you good and healthy, and you fly around healthy and stay young," Mr Darcy said, sitting cross-legged in white sand and having his fill of a cooked mullet not long from the net.

At the Maningrida creche, the Families and First Teachers' community program is cooking locally sourced fish to teach mothers healthy eating habits. "Junk makes them sick and going to Darwin, going to the clinic, and some babies are really unhealthy, so fisheries had to go do something for the community," she said.

 

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