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USA: By, and from, the Sea
Permit banks and collective ownership in Alaska return individual fishing rights to the collective, harking back to the early days of fishing.
More than 12,000 years ago, people on Haida Gwaii, an archipelago off British Columbia about 48 km south of Alaska, were cooking salmon. They are the earliest known humans...
United States of America
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Newsletter article
South Africa: A Mere Mural on the Wall?
Christian Adams, a fisher leader, highlighted the experiences of small-scale fishers in South Africa facing large-scale challenges in the era of the Blue Economy. Edited excerpts
On the long struggle for legal recognition of the small-scale fisheries (SSF) sector
SSF includes indigenous, traditional and artisanal fishers. They were subjected to extensive criminalization in South Africa and have fought a long struggle for legal recognition. They were recognized for the first time only in 2007, when the Equality...
South Africa
2024 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Newsletter article
France: A New Vision of the Sea
Local and regional ‘parliaments of the sea’ can ensure the participation of society in the management of marine areas while respecting the rights of fishers. An example from France.
“Numerous ethnographic studies show that the sea and its resources are not an open-access resource, but a common good, collectively controlled by...
France
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Newsletter article
Kenya: Twine to the Rescue
Kenya has a problem of ‘ghost nets’ or abandoned polyethylene fishing lines that pollute the aquatic ecology. An alternative design project finds a solution in biodegradable twine
Fishing gear is a major contributor to marine litter. ‘Ghost nets’ is the informal term for what is formally called Abandoned, Lost or Otherwise Discarded Fishing Gear (ALDFG). These continue to catch both target and non-target species. They pose risk to boat operations; damage coral reefs and the seabed; and...
Kenya
2024 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Newsletter article
India: Freshwater Blues
The scarcity of freshwater fish resources in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal highlights alarming trends in inland capture fisheries
On a rainy day in August, when the availability of fisheries resources is high in the Teesta river here, Bimal Das returned from a four-hour fishing trip with only three kg of fish. While sorting the fish from the ice slabs, a dejected Das contemplated quitting fishing to looking for...
India
2024 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Newsletter article
Asia/IYAFA: Stewardship, Resurgence
A decade after the adoption of the SSF Guidelines, a renewal of commitment and initiatives is needed to promote the sustainability, prosperity and well-being of small-scale fisheries in Asia
The International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022 (IYAFA) was celebrated worldwide. It provided a global platform to highlight the importance of small-scale fisheries and artisanal aquaculture, their role in sustainable development and the myriad of ways they ensure food security and poverty alleviation in dependent coastal and rural...
2024 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Blog article
Learning to cope with the spread of non-native species in the Mediterranean
More than 900 non-indigenous species have already been identified in the Mediterranean Sea. And the number is only expected to increase.
Climate change is helping non-native species move further north in the Mediterranean as water temperatures rise.
As they spread, so does concern about their effect on marine ecosystems and the local fishing...
Italy - Tunisia
2024 - FAO
Newsletter article
IYAFA: The Stage is Set
The International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) has been active in IYAFA celebrations. It is all set to carry forward the energy
The United Nations designated 2022 as the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022). The global action plan emphasized the objective for the year as “a world in which smallscale artisanal fishers, fish farmers and fishworkers of both genders are fully acknowledged and empowered to sustainably manage their...
2024 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Newsletter article
IYAFA: A New Era of Hope
The 10th Anniversary of the SSF Guidelines in 2024 will offer an opportunity to renew individual and collective commitments
The end of the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022) has led to a new era of support for artisanal fisheries and small-scale aquaculture. Several closing events were held around the world, not only to recognize the importance of small-scale fisheries (SSF) and their contribution to food...
2024 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Newsletter article
Europe/IYAFA: Future Reimagined
Participants from 16 European countries discussed the analytical framework for better governance of fisheries, employing imaginative tools for greater collaboration
The last of the series of IYAFA workshops was convened by the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) in collaboration with Low Impact Fishers of Europe (LIFE) and Mulleres Salgadas (MuS). The regional workshop for Europe was held on November 13-16, 2023, in Galicia, Spain. With its participatory and...
2024 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Newsletter article
Europe/IYAFA: Voice of a Brighter Future
A 15-year-old girl from an Irish island attended a workshop on small-scale fisheries for the first time. A first-person account of her excitement, of tough realities and hope
My name is Amelie Bonner. I am 15 years old. I love art, film, reading and music. I speak French, English and Irish. I am from Arranmore Island off the coast of Ireland. It is a beautiful island and is currently home to around 500 people. The community is small....
Ireland
2024 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Book
Fisheries responses to invasive species in a changing climate
Lessons learned from case studies
Due to the increasing pressure of a globalized economy and under the effects of a changing climate, biological invasions have become a frequent feature of marine and freshwater environments. Global fisheries and aquaculture are therefore required to adjust to these changes, with the dual aim of reducing the negative ecological...
2024 - FAO
Book
The inland fisheries of the Russian Federation: their current status for food provision and employment
The Russian Federation is the largest country in the world occupying one-third of Eurasia and it has enormous water resources. Fish from inland waters has always been a central part of the Russian diet and a major contributor to national food security. Inland fisheries are highly diversified and provide employment...
Russian Federation
2024 - FAO
Book
Rallying to Rome: Special People. Collective Processes. A Unique Event
A personal account of what went into organising the first International Conference of Fish Workers and their Supporters (ICFWS), held in Rome in July1984
In 1984, the UN/FAO was holding the World Conference on Fisheries Management and Development (WFC) in Rome. Government representatives and international agencies were attending. But fishers were not invited, their representatives neither.
This here is a personal account of the collective efforts that went into holding in Rome—parallel to WFC—the first...
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Report
ICSF's Brochure on Social Development and Fishing Communities
This brochure contains the challenges and recommendations from the eight countrie’s case studies on ‘Social Development and Sustainable Fisheries’ conducted by ICSF in Antigua and Barbuda, Costa Rica, Ghana, The Philippines, Bangladesh, Brazil, Thailand and India (Kerala/Tamil Nadu and West Bengal).
The ICSF’s studies uses the parameters of social development, within...
Antigua and Barbuda - Bangladesh - Brazil - Costa Rica - Ghana - India - Philippines - Thailand
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Project
Resultados del proyecto "Alianzas, procesos asociativos y vinculación comercial de la agricultura familiar en tiempos de la COVID-19 en América del Sur.
El proyecto de cooperación técnica "Alianzas, procesos asociativos y vinculación comercial de la agricultura familiar en tiempos de la COVID-19 en América del Sur" se desarrolló en Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Perú y Uruguay, con la misión de mitigar las repercusiones de la pandemia en la agricultura familiar y la pesca...
Argentina - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Chile - Uruguay
2024 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Report
SAMUDRA Report No.91, June 2024
The Triannual Journal of the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers
The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has just published the latest issue of SAMUDRA Report, its triannual journal on fisheries, communities and livelehoods. The current edition, SAMUDRA Report No. 91, dated June 2024, is a Special Issue that runs into 110 pages and features a diverse range of...
Antigua and Barbuda - Bangladesh - Brazil - Canada - Chile - China - Costa Rica - France - Ghana - India - Japan - Nicaragua - Senegal - Sri Lanka - Uganda - United States of America - Viet Nam
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Manual
Better management practices for rearing freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) in a nursery pond
This manual discusses better management practices for prawn nursery ponds. Details about preparation, fertilization, acclimatization , stocking, water quality, feeding, sampling, disease management and harvesting are being described.e
2024 - WorldFish
Newsletter
Yemaya Newsletter No.69, June 2024: ICSF´s newsletter on gender and fisheries
Yemaya No. 69, dated June 2024, features articles from Barbados, India, Spain, a regional study focusing on Kenya, Sri Lanka and Cambodia and Women in Fisheries Action plans from ICSF’s IYAFA workshops from Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean Islands.
A series of regional workshops were held through...
Barbados - Ghana - India - Spain
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Report
Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation
The impacts of the climate and biodiversity crises on people’s livelihoods and opportunities differ greatly based on their gender and other intersecting identity factors. Populations that face systemic marginalization and discrimination are often disproportionately affected.
International actors and scientific bodies, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental...
2024 - International Institute for Sustainable Development
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