Dear all
With due respect, like all others I also think that 'Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication' has various challenges like lack of sufficient focus on this issue, over and untimely fishing, climate change, fishermen profession change, habitat degradation, lack of deployment of sufficient security technologies, adaptation techniques, and financial support etc. But there are some hopes for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries for Food Security and Poverty Eradication. For example, as a part of adaptation, Euryhaline (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euryhaline) fish farming comprising more than one species could be considered where saline water intrusion in coastal areas is increasing rapidly due to climate change. I think this will strengthen the Blue economy in most climate change oriented countries like Bangladesh. Family based fish farming at aquariums or indoor can play a positive role in the economy rather than amateur fishes in aquariums or indoor. So we can campaign to make a habit of producing fishes on rooftop/overhead tanks, indoor tanks/aquariums along with fish farming in water bodies. Family fish farming can help a lot with cheap costs for nutrition. Small-scale Cooperative society operated based on fish farming in ponds, abundant canals, and rivers with various methods like fixed cage farming, moving vessels attached cage farming, or totally free fish farming etc are also fruitful. Some fish farming is also helpful for mosquitoes control, aquatic weeds control (that is bio control).
There are some threats in fish farming that are visible in many locations like contaminated fish feed, Plastic pollution and chemical pollution in surface water and sediment of fish farms etc. In this context, I think that if there were a 'Pollution Free Sediment Flow Act' at the country level to the UN level and its deployment globally, then it would be better for global sediment management. Sediment is an important resource for fish feed.
However, all sorts of natural and man-made disasters associated with small-scale fish farming need to be managed. Recently, fish farms are using various smart sensors, mobile apps, web applications, satellite images etc. Cyber security has become associated with these types of smart small-scale fish farms (Ref: https://thefishsite.com/articles/cybersecurity-a-growing-concern ). In this context, I think along with ongoing cyber security measures, 'YLIT Included Information Security' (Please read the attachments here with) could be used. 'YLIT Included Information Security' could be usable for all sectors of information security.
Small-scale fish farms are a source of income for many retired /senior citizens, women, young people etc and bless for food and nutrition for all without discrimination. I think that Banks and financial institutes can invest more in this sector as a part of eradication of poverty around the world.
Best wishes
Muhammad Ariful Haque
Muhammad Ariful Haque