Conference Name:‘Human rights, livelihood and dignity of small-scale fishers’ SSF Open House: World Ocean Week 2021, 3 June, 2021
Date: 03-06-2021
Abstract: 90 percent of the 38 million people employed in the capture fisheries (marine and inland) primary sector are small-scale fishers.
• Globally, 120 million people depend on capture fisheries; women make up half of the workforce (even more in postharvest fisheries).
• In developing countries, SSF produce more than half the fish catch, 90 percent of which is consumed locally
• SSF encompass full-time, part-time, occasional, subsistence, formal, informal, migrant fishers and fishworkers, including women, Indigenous Peoples and other the vulnerable and marginalized groups, and their families and communities…
