Paramaribo, 17 June 2018 The Director of LVV handed over the statutes to the SUNFO board members ©Ministry of LVV After intensive efforts over the last years, the Suriname National Fisherfolk Organization, SUNFO, is a fact. On the 14th of June Mr. Djoemadie Kasanmoesdiran, director of the Ministry...

• The Voluntary Guidelines for achieving fisheries sustainability seek to make visible, recognize and promote the valuable role of small-scale fisheries and help eradicate hunger and poverty Sonia Medina, a fisherwoman from Isla Venado and president of the local Association of fishers of Florida, Isla Venado de Puntarenas shares in Olinda,...

UN House, Barbados 17-18 May 2018 The Shrimp and Groundfish Fisheries of the North Brazil Guianas Shelf are critical for local employment, food security and international trade but require a regionally coordinated effort if they are to transform into sustainable fisheries. Such was the main conclusion of the second meeting of the...

As a part of the REBYC II-LAC Project in Brazil, a socioeconomic assessment of the artisanal and industrial shrimp-trawling fishery was performed from Espírito Santo to Rio Grande do Sul states, including particularly the identification of discards, the possible use of the bycatch and the role of women in local...

Marine or freshwater, farmed or wild, shrimp is considered one of the most popular and valuable food in the world, being highly consumed globally. Although it is much appreciated by the culinary of several countries, the catch methods of the wild shrimp have been intensely criticized by environmentalists around the...

Open drag with sediment sample in Patos Lagoon Estuary The shrimp trawl fishery is responsible for producing one of the major bycatch rates worldwide, which is currently associated to the small mesh size and the use of boards. In southern Brazil, there are two types of shrimp trawl...

Brazilian fisheries legislation, despite its complex tangle of obsolete and anacronic rules, consolidates in its development policies international guidelines and recommendations, with principles that aim to assure the sustainability of national fisheries, balancing the environmental, economic and social aspects of fishing activities. Meeting with fishers to evaluate the BRDs,...

The Environmental Protected Area of Anhatomirim (EPAA) (a kind of IUCN Protected Area Category VI) is located in the central coast of Santa Catarina State, a very important region for the shrimp trawl fishing at the South-Southeast Brazilian coast. Trawl fishing is one of the main livelihoods and concern for...

Iscuandé, Nariño, March 1-2 2018. The first workshop was successfully held to advance the construction of the fishery management plan under the ecosystem approach of the artisanal shrimp fishing and its bycatch in the community of El Cuerval on the Colombian Pacific (pilot site). 70 people attended mostly fishermen with approximately...

Santa Marta, February 1 2018. As part of the project "Sustainable management of bycatch in Latin America and Caribbean trawl fisheries (REBYC-II LAC)", the National Coordination conducted a preliminary training to scientific researchers from the University of Magdalena, WWF and INVEMAR, on the application of the Ecosystem Approach for the...