DOCUMENT
Green, blue and true…………………………………… 4
ICSF’s input to the Compilation
Document of UNCSD (Rio+20)
CENTRAL AMERICA
Conflicts and justice……………………………………. 8
Shrimp aquaculture in central America
leads to problems of environmental justice
CANADA
All together……………………………………………….. 12
The experience of Canada’s MFU highlights
the value of a community-based approach
EUROPE
Fairness or efficiency?……………………………….. 15
Europe is faced with the dilemma of balancing
social and economic objectives in the new CFP
UNITED STATES
The people who spear pollock……………………… 18
The Passamaquoddy tribe in eastern Maine,
US, are indigenous fishers with sovereign rights
CANADA
Good for nothing?………………………………………. 23
In British Colombia, quota leasing from ITQ
holders is a burden for the small-boat fishery
SURVEY
Testing transparency…………………………………. 26
An access-to-information survey reveals
a lack of respect for freedom of information
MEDITERRANEAN
Harmonizing rights…………………………………….. 31
The Mediterranean GFCM is focusing
on fishworkers’ rights in management
CENTRAL AMERICA
Unity in diversity……………………………………….. 36
The FAO’s VG-SSF Guidelines promise to
recognize the rights of fishing communities
REPORT
Community concerns………………………………….. 40
The Delhi MPA workshop showed how protected
areas affect fishery-dependent livelihoods
REVIEW
Coping, changing, imagining……………………….. 47
A review of a book that offers wider
lessons about small-scale fisheries
Comment…………………………………………………… 3
Roundup……………………………………………………. 50
