Hitoshi Takagi studies seafood cultures of coastal Indigenous populations. So far, he has investigated several Miskito Indian communities around the Mosquito Coast of Eastern Nicaragua, where the herbivorous green sea turtles are consumed (5,000-10,000 heads) on an annual basis (see Photo). In his Ph. D thesis, he investigated the economy of how green sea turtles were produced and consumed locally and the culinology of how those animals were cooked and prepared in large quantities by the coastal Indigenous populations. Dr. Takagi currently works with Dr. Yoshitaka Ota to create a database of various seafood and ocean-related cultures of coastal Indigenous populations as part of the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Program. He also works as a research fellow in the Japanese National Museum of Ethnology to collect information on peculiar seafood cultures left in ethnographies written by Japanese cultural anthropologists (also trying to translate his monograph, Takagi, H. 2019. Ethnography of Human and Sea Turtles – The Commercialized Turtling off the Mosquito Coast. Akashi Publishing).