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The establishment and operation of aquaparks

Experience from China
The term “aquapark” refers to an innovative aquaculture organizational model designed to facilitate and empower small-scale aquafarmers at every stage of the aquaculture value chain. This model encompasses comprehensive planning, zoning, and infrastructure development for roads, water and electricity, as well as vital aquaculture inputs like seed, feed, extension services...
China
2024 - FAO

Artículo de boletín informativo
Nicaragua: Revolving around an Axis

Nicaragua’s government seeks to ensure productivity growth in the fisheries sector, all the while maintaining food security and sovereignty.  The current state and trajectory of the artisanal fishing sector in Nicaragua’s autonomous regions along the Caribbean coast deserve a closer look and conversation. Such an examination can draw from several sources...
Nicaragua
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Artículo de boletín informativo
Canada: Two coasts, two standards

For many communities on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Canada, commercial fishing has all but disappeared as an economic activity for the once robust and independent small-boat fleet.  There are two contrasting realities in Canada on the matter of support for fishing communities and the small boat fleet that supports...
Canada
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Artículo de boletín informativo
Chile: Undoing a Great Wrong

Small-scale fishing communities in Chile are up in arms against the imposition of a new fisheries law and the neoliberal paradigm
Chile stretches along the southeast rim of the Pacific Ocean. The seas off South America’s southwestern coast are one of the five most productive and biodiverse marine areas on Earth. After 50 years of applying an orthodox neoliberal economic model, fishing and aquaculture comprise the second largest sector of the...
Chile
2024 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Artículo de boletín informativo
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)

Artículo de boletín informativo
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)

Artículo de boletín informativo
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)

Artículo de boletín informativo
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)

Artículo de boletín informativo
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)

Artículo de boletín informativo
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)

Artículo de blog
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

Artículo de boletín informativo
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)

Artículo de boletín informativo
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)

Artículo de boletín informativo
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)

Artículo de boletín informativo
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)

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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

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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

Libro
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)

Informe
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)

Proyecto
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)
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