The United Nations has declared 2022 as the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022) to highlight the importance of artisanal fishing and aquaculture. Over the past ten years, and even more so since the pandemic, blue economy initiatives have been blooming. The 2021 UN Food Systems Summit...

An FAO review dated November 2021 of the 2012 Hidden Harvest Report concluded that small-scale and subsistence fisheries provide livelihood to 113 million people, of whom around 40 per cent are women.  According to the report, these women are present in pre-harvest (gear fabrication and boat building), harvest, post-harvest (processing...

Aquaculture is the new sunrise sector with respect to ­fish production. Developing countries of Asia are the world leaders, with a large population dependent on the sector. Though a plethora of literature is available on aquaculture, there is a lacuna with regards to speci­fic studies on the human rights aspects...

As the fisheries and aquaculture sector discusses major policy changes – forced labour at sea, illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU), COVID-19 – women’s work is often overlooked, too easily wiped out of public view, receiving very little attention or support. When women’s labour is examined, this attention is rather...

The researchers behind a practical welfare assessment protocol for tilapia production in Brazil hope it can act as a framework for the implementation of a welfare management system that can be applied by tilapia farmers around the world.

Recent case studies in Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand explored women’s roles in the fisheries value chain. Women’s contributions in the fisheries value chain are not well recognised, even though there are many tasks in the fisheries value chain involving women. To show how important the women involved in fisheries are, gender...

There are many ways to study gender inequality. The World Inequality Report 2022 focuses on one key concept – gender pay gap. For a comprehensive understanding of where societies stand in terms of gender inequality at work, the relative overall shares of labour income accruing to women and men stands...

A cooperative action plan currently under draft aims to address labour and entrepreneurship challenges for women in fisheries. Gender inequality is one of the most pressing barriers in the fisheries sector’s labour market. Women workers in Asian fish value chains constitute a large share of the world’s fishworkers. In addition to...

Case studies from India highlight the vital but little-recognised role that women play as fishers. It is now acknowledged that women account for 50 per cent of the workforce in fisheries and aquaculture, especially when we take into account their work in post-harvest activities like processing and trading. The findings of...

Ricardo Torres Cruz, a native Nahua community leader and fisherman, had just traveled 340 miles to Mexico City so he could enter the federal government’s Attorney General’s Office to affirm a legal complaint against Petróleos de México – Pemex – the state-owned oil company he blames for killing the fish...

El objetivo del presente catálogo fue reunir toda la información disponible a la fecha sobre los laboratorios e instituciones que proveen servicios de diagnóstico de enfermedades de organismos acuáticos de declaración obligatoria de la Organización Mundial de Sanidad Animal (OIE), enfermedades comunes en granjas y de entrenamiento en temas de...

El proyecto tiene como objetivo apoyar el fortalecimiento de la gobernanza marino-costera en Chile, integrando y coordinando comunidades locales, instituciones públicas, privadas, académicas y de la sociedad civil, para la conservación y uso sustentable de los mares y costas de Chile. Se lleva a cabo a través de acciones de...

On the edge of the Caribbean Sea is an autonomous, Indigenous Peoples’ territory in Panama that has been inhabited by the Guna people for centuries. It winds its way around the gulf of the same name and includes an archipelago of around 300 islands. Within this territory is Naranjo Grande,...

Small-scale fishers and fish workers face increasingly high levels of social-ecological risk, particularly in the global South, and yet they tend to lack access to effective social protection. This infographic is part of work by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) to focus global attention on the importance of...

When Edy Prasetyo began farming catfish in 2001, he couldn’t have imagined how popular it would become for Indonesian street food culture. Today, grilled-catfish vendors line the streets of Jakarta and other urban centres on the archipelago, catering to city dwellers whose appetite for pecel lele often outruns the supply. But...

Did you know that more than half of the world’s fish and other aquatic food for human consumption comes from aquaculture? In fact, the farming of fish and shellfish (aquaculture) has been the fastest growing food production activity in the world in recent decades. This growth is expected to continue.What are the benefits...

Sustainable fisheries management starts with scientific research – and an enormous amount of it is taking place across the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, supported by the GFCM. Small-scale fishers have a central role to play in the monitoring and data collection activities that inform the work of fisheries scientists,...

As the conservation of marine resources becomes a growing global priority, the concept of marine protected areas (MPAs) is being widely propagated. Since most MPAs are located in coastal areas of great biodiversity, their development has direct relevance and concern to the livelihoods, culture and survival of small-scale and traditional...

A report of the CSM Women’s Working Group, authored by Jessica Duncan and Priscilla Claeys, 35 pages, English. This powerful statement opens the report: “We won’t go back to normality, because normality was the problem”. The report, authored by Jessica Duncan and Priscilla Claeys, truly imbibes this statement in its ethos,...

The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has just published the latest issue of SAMUDRA Report, its triannual journal on fisheries, communities and livelihoods. The current edition, SAMUDRA Report No. 85, dated May 2021, features a range of articles from Africa, Asia, South America and the Caribbean, specifically from...