Yemaya No. 66, dated March 2023, features articles on IYAFA Asia workshop, National level women in fisheries workshop in Chennai, India, article on gender and marine plastic pollution, report of a panel discussion during the 8th global symposium  on gender in aquaculture and fisheries.

Kyoko Kusakabe write that gender responsive fisheries require not only changes in fisheries practices but also changes in the daily practices of the community and households.

Nivedita Sridhar illustrates the shortcomings of lack of preferential treatment of women in all relevant fisheries policies, legislation and
schemes at the State and Union level. The workshop recommended to expand the scope of social protection schemes in fisheries to benefit
men and women, especially female-headed and to register and provide licences to all women fishers and fishworkers, including gleaners and
develop a database.

Veena N. and Kyoko Kusakabe in their article flag some key issues that need further research and analysis to understand the gendered impact of marine plastic on fishing communities in three different dimensions, their fishing activities, post-harvest activities and within the relations in the households.

Nilanjana Biswas and Ahana Lakshmi in their symposium report highlights the  key issues of women facing today. The symposium discussed  whether the discourse on women in fisheries  explicitly recognize womens human rights, labour rights, environmental rights, and social impacts.

Veena N. in her summary of Building back better from Covid-19 while advancing the full implementation of the 2030 agenda for Sustainable
Development    examines how each of the sustainable development goals was based on a vision of a just and equitable world. The report
recommends a human right based and gender transformative approach to the implementation of all aspects of the 2030 Agenda.

The Profile column by Tracey Lee Dennis looks at how   Charmaine Daniels battling several challenges at family level and at fishing level. Charmaine is worried about the fact that how Government policies are depriving fisher women of their dignity.

The current issue of Yemaya also spotlights SSF-LEX  which contains information distilled from FAOLEX database  with a menu specially customised for the SSF Guidelines. Ahana Lakshmi  opines that This database  would be of great value  especially for the purpose of advocacy and lobbying.

The Milestones column by Sivaja Nair looks at the recently published gender plan of action of The Global biodiversity framework. The gender plan of action  requests national governments and relevant organizations to incorporate the gender plan of action in national biodiversity strategies and action plans, and to include gender-specific indicators in the development of national indicators, collecting data disaggregated by sex, age and other demographic factors and gender indicators.

Sokha Eng, in the Yemaya Recommends section, points out that the film, The Unseen faces, Unheard Voices: Women and Aquaculture opines  that the gender division of labour and restrictive social norms prevent women from accessing  the benefit of the government’s aquacultural initiatives.