Cambodia’s community fisheries initiative is the most extensive and well-developed system of community fisheries in the world. The current fishery rights system in Cambodia is the most extensive and well-developed system of community fisheries in the world”, said the European Union (EU) Representative to Cambodia at the FAO/UN User Rights 2015...

Two-year EU-funded project supporting small-scale fishers across the Baltic and North Sea celebrates its closure with well attended gathering in Brussels. 

“Survive and Thrive: Adding Value to Fisheries Policy and Production for Small Scale Fishers”  

“Women” and “fishing” are two words that would not have been used together in the same sentence a few years ago in Rwanda. It has been a long-held belief in Rwanda that fishing is not for women – it is a man’s occupation. Women have mostly embraced this thinking as well, but...

The newsletter of December 2017 & January 2018 includes: Large-scale project for the Mediterranean to be led by LIFE for three years with the support of the MAVA Foundation, Massive support to LIFE for the vote on pulse fishing, Other news from around the EU, News from our members as well as Press review

Every year either Netherlands or Belgium hosts the bi-national CSA Conference. This year it was held in Amersfoort, in the center of the Netherlands and close to several CSAs. It was a fully sold out event (125+) with a plenary meeting, workshops, a meal and a movie and on Sunday we...

Sixty-eight-year-old Maria Elena is a fisherwoman, catching fish for a living in Mexico’s Lake Chapala. Earlier, in order to earn enough to meet family needs, in addition to fishing Maria Elena also filleted fish but her deteriorating health no longer permits this. Despite having fished for over 50 years, she...

New research in southern India, conducted by the Fish4Food Project, reveals that small-scale traders play an important role in ensuring access to fish by the urban poor. By providing low income consumers with small pelagic fish, in particular, small-scale traders support food security as well as contribute to the livelihoods...

As fish in Kenya’s Lake Victoria region becomes increasingly scarce, women fish traders in the region turn to fish farming to boost incomes and find a way out of the pernicious practice of jaboya

Fisheries experts convene today in Sofia, Bulgaria – to take stock of progress towards sustainable fisheries and aquaculture in the Black Sea and propose actions to maintain the momentum. All Black Sea countries signed the landmark Bucharest Declaration in 2016, with the goal of a sustainable future for fisheries and aquaculture in the...

Empowering small-scale fisheries: the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication Short animated video that wants to trigger awareness and discussion about key challenges faced by small-scale fishing communities, despite their critical contribution to nutrition, food security, national economies and poverty...

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.

Co-organised by Interreg Nord Summer Whitefish and Snowchange Cooperative, the Festival of Northern Fishing Traditions has wrapped up successfully in Tornio, Finland. Over 150 small-scale and Indigenous fishermen around the world joined forces to discuss climate change, traditional knowledge, governance and direct exchanges on common challenges.

LIFE reacts to the Commission’s proposal on Eel ahead of Monday’s Council

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.

Life calls for a more level playing field and a fairer allocation of quota between larger scale and smaller scale fisheries.

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.

The monthly newsletter of the Low Impact Fishers of Europe

Born in Venado Island, in the Nicoya gulf of Costa Rica’s Puntarenas province, 44-yearold Sonia Medina Matarrita is part of the fourth generation of a small-scale artisanal fishing family. A single mother, Sonia has taken care of her family of two girls and one boy singlehandedly for the past 13...

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.