The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has published a study that analyzes how the so-called ‘Blue Economy’ discourses and practice plays out from the perspectives of small-scale, artisanal fishworkers in ten Latin American countries: Brazil, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panamá, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala.

The study, titled ‘Baffling Shades of Blue: Addressing the impacts of the Blue Economy on small-scale fisheries in Latin America’, is part of ICSF’s campaign activities aimed at generating critical knowledge to support and strengthen fishing communities’ engagement in SSF and to promote social development and sustainable fisheries on the basis of a human-rights-based approach, in accordance with the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (the SSF Guidelines).