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10-year plan for stronger, more equitable and environmentally friendly mahi-mahi fishery
FISH4ACP ready to start supporting Dominican Republic in making value chain more productive and sustainable
Key stakeholders in Dominican fisheries today endorsed a ten-year upgrading strategy for the mahi-mahi sector, marking the launch of an ambitious agenda to strengthen this important artisanal fishery, making sure that benefits are shared equitably and growth does not increase the burden on the environment.
“This agreement gives an important boost...
Dominican Republic
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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India: A New Road Map
A national platform of fishers met to assert the inalienable right of fishers and fishworkers to access water bodies, campaign for climate justice, and become a federation of unions through a new constitution
The national council meeting of the National Platform for Small-Scale Fish Workers (NPSSFW) was held in Kolkata, India, on November 6-7, 2023. The main objectives of the first day of the meeting were to discuss the issues and challenges faced by smallscale fishworkers in the country and to strengthen the...
India
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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Central America: Joined In Common Cause
More than one hundred small-scale fishworkers from five Central American countries gathered for the third fisheries congress
The city of Cahuita in Costa Rica hosted the III SmallScale Fisheries Congress from September 26 to 29, 2023. Its theme was: ‘Life, knowledge and culture linked together’. In attendance were numerous fishworkers and shellfish gleaners and their representatives from Costa Rica, along with 21 delegates from Mexico, Honduras and...
Costa Rica - Honduras - Mexico - Nicaragua - Panama
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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The mangrove oyster value chain in the Gambia
FISH4ACP is an initiative of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) to support sustainable fisheries and aquaculture development. The five-year value chain (VC) development programme (2020 to 2025) is implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with funding from the European Union...
Gambia
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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How aquatic food systems fared during the COVID-19 Pandemic
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world’s capture fisheries and aquaculture sectors experienced an “unprecedented shock” that rippled across the globe, according to a review by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF).
The study, published...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Fishers and scientists pledge common efforts to preserve critically endangered European eel
Dozens of fishers, scientists and administrators met this week in Orbetello, Italy to share knowledge and discuss the future of the European eel fishery in the Mediterranean Sea. They expressed support for collaborating on scientific monitoring activities in order to preserve the species and its habitat.
European eel (Anguilla anguilla) is...
2023 - General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean - GFCM
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Seahorse fishing declared illegal in Cambodia
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) has announced that fishing for seahorses and selling them in markets is now illegal. Anyone caught fishing for seahorses or selling them will face fines and legal action.
Cambodia
2023 - Khmer Times
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In seas and stomachs: bolstering the long-term viability of sea urchins
Supporting the economic and ecological role of this spiky but delicate creature
In the azure waters surrounding the Italian island of Procida in the Gulf of Naples lies a rich and dynamic marine environment. This is the home of the stony, purple sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus), an important herbivore, as well as prey for a number of fish, starfish and molluscs. This...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Africa/IYAFA: A Ripple Effect
Africa’s shared vision of food security and nutrition, poverty eradication and sustainable natural resources finds voice in IYAFA
The message is clear: the role of fishers, fish farmers and fishworkers is central. They are custodians of aquatic resources for all. In scores of events and other engagements across Africa in 2022, conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and our valued partners, what...
2023 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers ICSF
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GFCM pilot project on the marine life of Black Sea Sturgeons
Sturgeons are among the most iconic of all Black Sea species but also among the most threatened species groups in the basin and in the world. Though fishing for the several species of sturgeon (Acipenseridae) present in the Black Sea basin is no longer permitted, this prohibition alone will not...
2023 - GFCM
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Madagascar signs new ‘sustainable’ tuna deal with the EU
Foreign tuna fishing companies, mostly from Asia, have been exploiting Madagascar’s waters since the 1950s. The bloc that is now the European Union joined the hunt in 1986 and didn’t stop for decades, renewing its deal with Madagascar every few years.
Yet when the last Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (SFPA), as...
European Union - Madagascar
2023
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Catalogue of fishing gear in the Mediterranean and Black Sea region
The wide variety of marine species of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, found in different geographical subregions and habitats, has led to the development of a highly diversified fishing sector characterized by a broad range of fishing gear. Over time, harvesting marine resources has become more efficient due to...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Women are expanding their role in fisheries and aquaculture in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea
Women are working to transform fisheries and aquaculture in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. International Women’s Day 2023 is an opportunity to reflect on the contribution of women to the sector, while recognizing that more still needs to be done to acknowledge and advance their key role in the value chain.
FAO...
2023 - FAO - Fisheries and Aquaculture
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Moving towards stronger and healthier shrimp fishery in Cameroon
Efforts to keep shrimp catches in Cameroon at current levels while strengthening the shrimp fishery were in the spotlight today at the handover of a report by the global fish value chain development program FISH4ACP that is helping the country to make its shrimp sector stronger and to lessen its...
Cameroon
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Harvesting the benefits of nutritional research to address global challenges in the 21st century
Over the past 20 years, substantial progress has been made in improving feeds and feeding technologies for most aquaculture species. Notable improvements in feed conversion efficiency (through a better understanding of requirements and improved feed management) and ingredient sustainability (through increased capability to use a wider range of ingredients) have been...
2023 - World Aquaculture Society
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Oyster farming can help preserve mangroves
Oyster farming can help preserve mangroves, said Khadim Tine at FAO’s Science and Innovation Forum debate on addressing climate challenges. An interview with this oyster farmer from Senegal, who is actively involved in efforts by the global fish value chain development program FISH4ACP to make Senegal’s oyster more productive and...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Book Review: A Sense of Home
Svein Jentoft’s essays on the experiences of small-scale fisheries focus on the human aspects of the communities in which they are embedded, common to both the North and the South
The Gift of Community – More Essays on Human Experiences of Small-scale Fisheries by Svein Jentoft. TBTI Global. 2023. 364 pages The well-known sociologist Svein Jentoft has spent many years of his life studying and writing about fisheries, both in the global South (such as in Nicaragua, where he has...
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Sao Tome and Principe is moving to more productive and sustainable coastal pelagic fisheries
Progress at making coastal pelagic fisheries in Sao Tome and Principe more profitable and environmentally sustainable was showcased today, as a report outlining an overhaul of this sector that is key for food and jobs on the African island nation was presented to media.
“Coastal pelagics provide healthy and affordable...
Sao Tome and Principe
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Empowering women in small-scale fisheries for sustainable food systems
This report presents the design and results of a baseline survey with respect to a project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) focusing on empowering women in small-scale fisheries. The project supports the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the...
Ghana - Malawi - Sierra Leone - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Roundup, news, events, briefings and more… Samudra Report No.90, December 2023
The Roundup includes recent publications, films added to our Documentation centre, meetings coming up, websites which are important to small-scale fisheries, flashback of editorial from old issues of samudra report related to the theme and Endquote from the world of literature related to fisheries.
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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