General public

  • Consumers are encouraged to buy and consume products from small-scale artisanal fisheries and aquaculture and to visit and engage with local small-scale fishers, fish farmers and fishworkers to better understand their value to society.

Governments and policy makers

  • Governments should actively create space for the participation and incorporation of small-scale artisanal fisheries and aquaculture into responsive legal and policy frameworks that represent global best practices and internationally agreed instruments in support of small-scale artisanal fisheries and aquaculture, such as the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines), using available guidance tools.
  • Governments should also strengthen existing sectoral programmes for small-scale artisanal fisheries and aquaculture to improve their production skills and contribution to food security, e.g. through the development of National Plans of Action in support of the implementation of the SSF Guidelines.
  • Governments should incorporate climate change mitigation and adaptation in all small-scale artisanal fisheries and aquaculture policies, plans, programmes and projects and promote climate- resilient small-scale artisanal fisheries and aquaculture to understand where and how small-scale artisanal fisheries and aquaculture can address climate change and other external impacts on the food system, e.g. through nature-based fisheries and aquaculture practices that have the added benefit of the conservation and sustainable use of resources.
  • Governments should also support livelihoods diversification of communities dependent on small- scale artisanal fisheries and aquaculture, considering the impact of climate change.

Small-scale artisanal fisheries and aquaculture organizations

  • Small-scale artisanal fisheries and aquaculture organizations should learn from each other and engage in strategic partnerships to get stronger and constructively engage in relevant decision- making processes, such as co-management.
  • These organizations should also identify and communicate their needs, and engage with relevant partners from NGOs, development partners, academia and government to address those needs and realize opportunities.
  • These organizations should clearly communicate their views and positions on relevant topics and explain them in related processes.

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

  • Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) should support small-scale artisanal fisheries and aquaculture organizations and share related information with a broad range of audiences, including through the organization of participatory events and campaigns.
  • Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) should support small-scale artisanal fisheries and aquaculture organizations in developing their capacities, including leadership skills.

Academia

  • Researchers and academic institutions should gather and disseminate transdisciplinary evidence on specific aspects of small-scale artisanal fisheries and aquaculture, such as gender, climate change, contributions to nutrition and food security and environmental sustainability in a participatory manner, taking into account traditional knowledge, to inform related management and development approaches.
  • They should support building national and regional capacities to design early warning models and indicators that can demonstrate climate change impacts on small-scale artisanal fisheries and aquaculture and implement related education and training programmes on climate change and its consequences.

Development partners

  • Development Partners should specifically include small-scale artisanal fisheries and aquaculture in their development support to food security and nutrition, poverty eradication and sustainable use of natural resources. This support should promote the implementation of internationally agreed instruments.