The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has just released the latest editions of two of its popular fisheries publications SAMUDRA Report, its triannual journal on fisheries, communities and livelihoods, and Yemaya, its newsletter on gender and fisheries.
SAMUDRA Report No. 64, dated March 2013, features articles from Asia, Africa, South America, Mauritania, Canada, the United Kingdom (UK) and the Caribbean, besides workshop reports and documents.
The UK report details how England’s small-scale fisheries are being integrated within a national system, while another article deals with the conflicting responses to the new European Union-Mauritania Fisheries Agreement.
From South America, an article on Peru analyzes how anchoveta catches meant for human consumption are being diverted into fishmeal production, while another article from Brazil shows how the country is backing increased production through industrial fisheries and aquaculture.
Two articles in SAMUDRA Report No. 64 cover the Asian region. One, from Sri Lanka, focuses on the Regional Fisheries Livelihoods Programme in the Negombo lagoon, while the other, from India, reports on a national workshop on the International Labour Organization (ILO) Work in Fishing Convention, held in Goa.
The latest edition also carries a summary of a study on globalization and trade treaties in Atlantic Canadian fisheries as well as reports on a conference on small-scale fisheries (SSF) along the Honduran Caribbean coast, and the approach of civil society organizations towards the International SSF Guidelines proposed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
The editorial comment in SAMUDRA Report No. 64 points to the need for ratification of the ILO Work in Fishing Convention No. 188.
The Roundup section of the issue carries news, notices and announcements.
SAMUDRA Report No. 64 can be accessed at http://www.icsf.net/en/samudra/article/EN/64.html?limitstart=0
The latest edition of ICSF’s newsletter on gender and fisheries, Yemaya No. 42, dated March 2013, features reports from Bangladesh, India and Japan as well as notices, interviews and profiles.
The Bangladesh article reports on how a new campaign to ensure labour compliance in the economically vital shrimp processing industry, promises labour rights to women working in the sector.
From India comes a report on how an important dialogue between Mumbai’s women fish vendors, State officials and researchers on livelihood security has been kickstarted by an ICSF study.
A report from Japan talks of how the livelihoods and resource-management practices of the women ama free diver community in Japan’s Noto peninsula are under pressure of modernization.
Also in Yemaya No. 42 is a report on how civil society organizations across continents are working to ensure that the International Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries comprehensively address the issues of the sector.
The latest issue of Yemaya features a profile of a 55-year-old woman leader of fishworkers in Panama whose courageous work is bolstering the dignity of fishworkers, their incomes and conditions of work.
Also featured is an interview with a fisherwoman leader of the National Organization of Fisherwomen of Brazil.
The current issue of Yemaya carries announcements of new websites, a documentary film on women fishworkers of Odisha, India, and a landmark agreement to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls adopted at the 57th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
The ever-popular cartoon series, Yemaya Mama, completes the latest edition of Yemaya.
Yemaya No. 42 can be accessed at http://www.icsf.net/en/yemaya/article/EN/42.html?limitstart=0
ICSF is an international NGO that works towards the establishment of equitable, gender-just,self-reliant and sustainable fisheries, particularly in the small-scale, artisanal sector.
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