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REPORT Migrant Labour Climate Change Offshore Wind Farms A Samudra Report No.84, December 2020 Item Type monograph Publisher The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) Download date 07/10/2021 14:28:23 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/1834/41330 No. 84 | December 2020 REPORT THE TRIANNUAL JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL COLLECTIVE IN SUPPORT OF FISHWORKERS Migrant Labour Climate Change Women’s Co-operatives Offshore Wind Farms A New Virtual Platform Land Tenure Rights Fisheries, Communities, Livelihoods ICSF is an international NGO working on issues that concern and action, as well as communications. SAMUDRA Report invites fishworkers 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 Chennai, India. Non-governmental International Organizations. It also has Liaison Status with FAO. The opinions and positions expressed in the articles are those of the authors concerned and do not necessarily represent the As a global network of community organizers, teachers, official views of ICSF. 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 https://igssf.icsf.net REPORT FRONT COVER THE TRIANNUAL JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL COLLECTIVE IN SUPPORT OF FISHWORKERS NO.84 | DECEMBER 2020 ATIKUR RAHMAN A ceramic wall decoration, island of Ustica, Sicily, Italy Photo by Cornelie Quist Email: [email protected] PUBLISHED BY International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) Trust No: 22, First Floor Venkatrathinam Nagar Adyar Chennai - 600 020 Tamil Nadu India Phone: (91) 44–24451216 / 24451217 Fax: (91) 44–24450216 Email: [email protected] Website: www.icsf.net INDIA STATEMENT EDITED BY At Sea, Out of Sight ................................ 4 Call to the European Commission .................. 41 KG Kumar On the vulnerabilities and demands of migrant An inclusive oceans strategy is needed for COPY EDITOR fishworkers in India sustainable fishing communities in the EC Sopan Joshi PERU OBITUARY DESIGNED BY MS Vasanth Christopher Reboot Overdue.................................... 13 Jeremy Bernard Herklots – An Unsung Hero .. 43 Little attention is paid to the challenges small- Jeremy Herklots pioneered the most popular ILLUSTRATIONS BY scale fishworkers face village-based, beach-landing fishing craft Sandesh FOR LIMITED CIRCULATION ONLY KIRIBATI BRAZIL A Large Ocean State Seeks Change .... 16 A many-sided munificence................... 46 Vulnerability to climate change enforces a The SSF Guidelines can improve the management SAMUDRA News Alerts discipline of resilience of a fish species in the Amazon rainforest SAMUDRA News Alerts is a free service designed to deliver news reports and analysis on fisheries, BELIZE GHANA aquaculture and related issues, on a daily or Reform Agenda For Empowering Women ... 20 Rich Rewards Of Doing It Right .......... 49 weekly digest basis, in plain text or html format. Only empowerment can place women in power Implementing the SSF Guidelines must factor The service often features exclusive, original in fisheries cooperatives in local conditions and human-rights principles stories on small-scale and artisanal fisheries, particularly in the regions of the South, as well FRANCE MYANMAR as issues that deal with women in fisheries and safety at sea. Apart from news and Crashing the Blue Party ....................... 24 Spreading The Net ................................ 54 stories on fisheries, the service also focuses on French fishers combat plans for an offshore A national network helps fishery stakeholders environmental and oceans issues. Please visit http://www. icsf.net to subscribe to SAMUDRA wind farm share information on the SSF Guidelines News Alerts. SSF THE PHILIPPINES The Fishing World’s (Virtual) Oyster ... 28 Being Worker-friendly .......................... 58 A new virtual platform helps share knowledge The labour benefits of fishworkers on BACK COVER and engages small-scale fishery actors globally commercial fishing vessels must be regulated PHILIPPINES SRI LANKA Fishy Tourism......................................... 32 Path To A Policy Upgrade ..................... 64 Coastal communities cannot transition from State and stakeholders must be involved in fishing to tourism with weak land tenure rights transitioning the SSF Guidelines into policy OCEANS VIETNAM A New Deal With Our Ocean Planet .... 34 Shared Success ...................................... 69 An inclusive, equitable and sustainable ocean A fishing village offers a replicable model on economy needs bold leadership protection of small-scale fisheries OBITUARY Activist, Advocate, Comrade ....................... 38 COMMENT ............................................... 3 Fish sales on Nouakchott beach, Mauritania T Peter, Indian unionist, was a committed organizer Photo by: Olivier Barbaroux and leader with exemplary political acumen ROUNDUP ............................................. 74 Email: [email protected] XXXX 2 GIUSEPPE BIZZARRI/FAO Fisherman sitting next to boxes of sardines that have been unloadedSAMUDRA on REPO to RtheT NO. wharf 84 at El Jadida harbour, Morocco XXXX T A New Platform, A New Engine N The FAO-SSF Umbrella Programme offers a platform to provide direction for the formulation of small-scale fisheries policies, strategies and legislation in many developing countries OMME n the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and disseminate information about the implementation C Ithe attendant control measures, the Committee of the SSF Guidelines, to facilitate exchange of on Fisheries (COFI) of the Food and Agriculture information on small-scale fisheries, and to improve Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in an co-ordination among small-scale fisheries stakeholders. unprecedented move, decided to hold its 34th Session The SSF Guidelines are also being advocated as a in a virtual mode in the first week of February 2021, tool for achieving the 2030 sustainable development almost seven months after the scheduled date. agenda, particularly to reach the SDG 14b target. As with all the previous eight COFI meetings since The FAO-SSF-UP, needless to say, is an eloquent 2003, the 2021 COFI agenda includes support to small- testimony to the continued relevance of the SSF scale and artisanal fisheries as a standalone agenda item. Guidelines in providing direction to the formulation This is welcome. The range of activities undertaken since of small-scale fisheries policies, strategies and the establishment of the FAO-SSF Umbrella Programme legislation at the regional and national levels in (hereafter, the FAO-SSF-UP) in 2015 -- in partnership many developing countries. It also has the potential with governments, regional fisheries bodies, civil society to be the engine to power the SSF-SSF mechanism. organizations (CSOs), non- As was argued in governmental organizations SAMUDRA Report over a (NGOs) and academia -- decade ago (see SAMUDRA towards the implementation Report No. 57, November of the SSF Guidelines, is quite 2010), there is need not significant, and has greatly only for an international 3 expanded in scope since the instrument but also a global last COFI meeting in 2018. programme to cater to the The initiatives under needs of the world’s small- the FAO-SSF-UP are scale artisanal fisheries. The mostly demand-driven FAO-SSF-UP, in our view, activities. Perhaps the most plays this role, and needs exciting development of to be comprehensively all is the establishment supported to strengthen, of regional platforms for or initiate, national non-State actors (NSAs) in Southern Africa as well participatory processes for the sustainable as in Western Africa, and the ongoing effort to development of small-scale fisheries. create a pan-African NSA platform and to link it up Although over 30 countries have impressively with the SSF Global Strategic Framework (SSF-GSF). benefited from various initiatives in support of small- Supported by FAO-SSF-UP, some countries are already scale fisheries since 2016, many small-scale fish- developing national plans of action in a consultative and producing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America participatory manner. Others are developing regional are yet to figure in the list of countries engaging approaches to implementation, including with the in the implementation of the SSF Guidelines. The participation of Indigenous Peoples, or looking at how scope of the FAO-SSF-UP might also be broadened regional policies are complementing the SSF Guidelines. to include initiatives to document how the 2030 The FAO-SSF-UP is complemented in some Agenda for Sustainable Development indicators countries by other donor-supported projects related to measures the social wellbeing of the vulnerable and women’s empowerment, gender equality, small-scale marginalized in marine and inland fishing communities. fisheries governance, co-management and climate- In addition, the FAO-SSF-UP should be encouraged change resilience of small-scale fishers. In this regard, to support monitoring and evaluation of all initiatives it is worth mentioning the project to evaluate, at the under the auspices of all actors involved in implementing global level, the performance of extant fisheries co- the SSF Guidelines. At a time when fishing communities, management systems, and initiatives to strengthen worldwide, are limping back to their fisheries after small-scale fishers’ associations and
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