SAMUDRA Report No.47, July 2007 Item Type monograph Publisher International Collective in Support of Fishworkers Download date 24/09/2021 08:31:49 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/1834/33075 No. 47 | July 2007 issn 0973–1121 REPORT samudraTHE TRIANNUAL JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL COLLECTIVE IN SUPPORT OF FISHWORKERS Siem Reap Workshop and Symposium ITQs in Iceland Salmon Aquaculture in Chile MPAs in France Social Issues in Small-scale Fisheries Work in Fishing Convention Fisheries, Communities, Livelihoods ICSF is an international NGO working on issues that concern and action, as well as communications. SAMUDRA Report invites fi shworkers the world over. It is in status with the Economic and contributions and responses. Correspondence should be addressed Social Council of the UN and is on ILO’s Special List of to the Chennai offi ce. Non-Governmental International Organizations. It also has Liaison Status with FAO. 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As a global network of community organizers, teachers, technicians, researchers and scientists, ICSF’s activities encompass monitoring and research, exchange and training, campaigns All issues of SAMUDRA Report can be accessed at www.icsf.net RANDEE CABACES ccover.inddover.indd 2 77/24/2007/24/2007 99:55:07:55:07 PMPM REPORT FRONT COVER THE TRIANNUAL JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL COLLECTIVE IN SUPPORT OF FISHWORKERS NO.47 | JULY 2007 ICSF Detail of bas relief at Bayon Temple, Angkor, Cambodia Photo by Rolf Willmann PUBLISHED BY Chandrika Sharma for International Collective in Support of Fishworkers 27 College Road Chennai 600 006, India Phone: (91) 44–2827 5303 Fax: (91) 44–2825 4457 Email: [email protected] ICSF BELGIUM OFFICE Sentier des Rossignols 2 1330 Rixensart, Belgium Phone: (32) 2–652 5201 Fax: (32) 2–654 0407 Email: [email protected] EDITED BY KG Kumar DESIGNED BY Satish Babu PRINTED AT Nagaraj and Company Pvt. Ltd., REPORT FRANCE Chennai Asserting Rights, An Integrated Approach .................34 ILLUSTRATIONS BY Defi ning Responsibilities ..................4 The French experience of the potential benefits Sandesh (sandeshcartoonist@ An account of the Siem Reap Workshop and of marine protected areas for fishermen gmail.com) Symposium, organized by ICSF in collaboration FOR LIMITED CIRCULATION ONLY with the Royal Government of Cambodia REPORT SAMUDRA News Alerts Focus on the Small-scale Sector .....38 SAMUDRA News Alerts is a free service designed SYNTHESIS Social issues in small-scale fisheries were to deliver news reports and analysis on fi sheries, aquaculture and related issues, on a daily or The Responsibility discussed at the recent session of the Committee weekly digest basis, in plain text or HTML format. of Stewardship ................................18 on Fisheries (COFI) of the FAO The service often features exclusive, original stories on small-scale and artisanal fi sheries, The Siem Reap meet demonstrated collective particularly in the regions of the South, as well as issues that deal with women in fi sheries and goodwill and an impressive commitment to REPORT safety at sea. 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ICELAND issues related to working conditions of fishers BACK COVER The Quota Conundrum ....................22 Icelandic small-boat owners seem to REVIEW have negotiated their own space within By, For the Villagers .........................46 the ITQ system A review of a study of a traditional Indonesian resource management system CHILE Mucho Moolah, Sweatshop Standards .....................29 COMMENT .................................................3 Despite its leading export status, Chile’s salmon aquaculture industry is plagued by poor ROUNDUP ...............................................50 Fishworker at Royapuram Fishing SAMUDRA FOR SIEM REAP Harbour, Chennai, India standards SUPPLEMENT: ........26 Photo by KG Kumar ssam47.inddam47.indd 1 77/25/2007/25/2007 33:59:49:59:49 AAMM 2 KG KUMAR/ICSF SAMUDRA REPORT NO.47 Fishermen ferrying their catch at the Rameswaram fish landing centre in the south Indian State of Tamil Nadu ssam47.inddam47.indd 2 77/20/2007/20/2007 33:41:24:41:24 AAMM A Useful Toolkit TheThe WorkWork in FishingFishing Convention, 2007, aims to betterbetter workingworking and living conditions for millions in the fi shing sector COMMENT hursday, 14 June 2007, will go down in his- On the matter of compliance with the tory as a particularly significant day for requirements of the Convention, the flag States fishers and fishworkers all over the world. are required to undertake inspections, reporting, That was the day the 96th Session of the In- monitoring, complaint procedures, appropriate Tternational Labour Conference (ILC) of the Interna- penalties and corrective measures. There are tional Labour Organization (ILO) adopted the Work further port-State provisions, albeit weak, to report in Fishing Convention, 2007, which seeks to guaran- to the flag State, about non-confirmation to the tee innovative new labour standards to improve the requirements of the Convention by a fishing vessel conditions for millions of men and women working that calls at its port, and even to take measures to in the fishing sector worldwide. rectify any conditions on board such a vessel Adopted in the year of the that are hazardous to safety or health. silver jubilee of the 1982 United Except for minimum age, the Nations Convention on the other provisions of the Convention Law of the Sea, the Fishing that would apply to the small- Convention is the first ILO scale and artisanal subsector instrument in fishing since the are non-prescriptive; it has adoption of the 200 nautical been left to the ILO member mile exclusive economic zone countries to adopt laws, regime by coastal States in regulations or other 3 the 1970s. This time around, measures to implement unlike at the 93rd Session of them. It is thus now the ILC in 2005, more countries, important to press for including China, which accounts for the largest campaigns at the national level to identify, through share of fishing capacity and the largest number of a consultative process, categories of fishers and fishers in the world, voted for the adoption of the fishing vessels that should be included within the Convention (see report on page 42). scope of the Convention, and to ensure its maximum The Convention has a three-tier structure. coverage. In particular, countries with large fisher First, all provisions of the Convention, upon its populations and fishing fleets, such as China, India ratification, would apply to fishing vessels above and Vietnam, which voted for its adoption, should 24 m in length, and fishers working on board such ratify and implement its provisions at the earliest. vessels. Second, many of the provisions would apply The Work in Fishing Convention, 2007, is just to the majority of commercial fishing vessels and a toolkit. The ball is now in the court of national fishers working on them, regardless of size of the governments. They should consult all relevant vessel. Third, some of the prescriptive provisions stakeholders, especially organizations representing would apply to fishing vessels below 24 m over fishworkers, and use the Convention to develop an unspecified period of time. The latter tier, effective measures to protect the working and living presumably, applies to industrial fishing operations conditions of fishers, both in large- and small-scale employing vessels below 24 m. fishing. New look, new beginnings With this issue, SAMUDRA Report adorns new garb in the form back-of-the-book section that contains short news items and of a bolder and more contemporary look. 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JULY 2007 ssam47.inddam47.indd 3 77/20/2007/20/2007 33:41:27:41:27 AAMM Report SIEM REAP MEET Asserting Rights, Defining Responsibilities A report on the Siem Reap Workshop and Symposium, organized by ICSF, in collaboration with the Royal Government of Cambodia workshop titled “Asserting to the continuous possession or enjoy- Rights, Defining Responsibili- ment of coastal residential habitats and A ties: Perspectives from Small- other lands traditionally used by them, scale Fishing Communities on Coastal is of paramount importance. and Fisheries Management in Asia”, These rights are currently being was organized by the International Col- threatened in various ways, due to de- lective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF), velopments both within and outside in collaboration with the Royal Govern- the fisheries sector. At the same time, ment of Cambodia (RGC), in Siem Reap, recognition of these rights, within the 4 Cambodia, from 3 to 5 May 2007. framework of sustainable utilization of The workshop was followed by a living natural resources, is necessary if two-day symposium where the partici- fishing communities are to progressive- pants were joined by representatives ly share the responsibility of managing of the governments of some South and coastal and fisheries resources.