Stockfish is an important food from Norway to Nigeria. Here’s why. #fish #food #norway #nigeria

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[johnscarceforpresident]

Every time I see stockfish I always think of the chess engine not the food

[marcushendriksen]

Wait a moment! You've told us where stockfish comes from and why it's so expensive, but not why it's an important food in itself! That's the whole reason I clicked!

[arcticblue]

To be honest, living in a town that used to produce lots of stockfish before the 1990s... its not energyconsuming, boats catch the fish and at the moment Cod is quite expensive to buy for the factories, but for the factories it is hard because they buy the fish and have to pay within days or weeks, but they don't get paid for the stockfish before its been sold after months.
So that means it is capital stored up for them, capital they could use to buy more fish, if they had it.

The production of stockfish is wintertime, so they hang the fish on racks outside, as long as the winter is cold and nice the fish dry up and when its ready its too dry for insects and can last for years.

Can also produce stockfish from other fishtypes, but most common is Cod.

[owenswabi]

As if the government doesn’t have an extreme hand in the black market.. Nigeria also has the 7th largest reserve of oil in the world, most of it being Bonnie sweet crude. A failed state

[sujith]

Norway and Nigeria were two different place which located far away, the sorrounding countries probably aware of this kind of fish. But where distinct places in life style and habits means there will be craze to this kind of fish the demand rises and exists in boarder way possible to introduce at other places.

[GenRN]

Ok, is stockfish a species of fish or is it referring to a way of preserving fish? I’m having a hard time understanding the appeal and price.

[Anthop]

This is a great example of why local production is so important and how, even though colonialism is "over, " the inequalities in industrial development and investment continues to make sure that wealth flows out of the third world and into the first.

[akosikriziapaula]

May ganyan rin sa amin kung tawagin ay daing (dried fish).

[JoshWitte]

I miss Great Big Story, but these videos are okay

[gemsoft]

This is funny cuz in colonial America, this was a popular way to preserve fish for soldiers and it was pretty cheap

[cpostclothesrack]

In paper official rate is king. In the streets black money is what you work with

[zaid]

Kindly tell the lady to speak louder the next time 🙏

[missc]

Maybe they should import good quality salt and take omega 3 suppliments, like the rest of us, instead?

[adrianaslund]

It's been exported since the middle ages.

[BlairAnsor]

Stock fish isn’t that expensive here in the U.K.

[ericfine]

Why is it so expensive. I think the Nigerians are getting gouged on the price.

[Geojr]

How are there any fish even left in the wild?

[Punisher]

it looks like a leather factory, not a food product

[Lakshmi]

If they cannot afford it, who’s purchasing this fish?

[danielkidder]

You’re telling me these fish can play chess?