ICSF-FSSF Sri Lanka Workshop on Strengthening Collaboration and Capacity-Building in Small-Scale Fisheries, 24-26 February 2025

ICSF-FSSF Sri Lanka Workshop on Strengthening Collaboration and Capacity-Building in Small-Scale Fisheries, 24-26 February 2025, Sri Lanka

International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) is committed to promoting and defending equitable, gender-just, self-reliant, and sustainable small-scale fisheries around the world. We believe in strengthening fishing communities and SSF organizations, protecting their local and ecological knowledge, enhancing their social development, and sustainable fisheries, based on a human rights-based approach embedded in the principles of the SSF Guidelines. ICSF prioritizes working in a spirit of diverse dialogue and cooperation, to influence the decision-making processes of multilateral bodies, governments and organizations in favour of small-scale fishing communities, particularly in order to cope with the multiplicity of accumulated and new threats. Based on the experiences of its members and allied SSF organizations, ICSF focuses its work around four key themes: tenure rights, access and use; food security and nutrition; marginalization within the blue economy; environmental crises and climate change; and social protection and social development.

Forum for Small Scale Fisheries (FSSF), Sri Lanka, is a platform that is inclusive (all relevant stakeholders), participatory, integrated (all sub-sectors are present) and holistic (looking at fisheries as a component of the coastal ecosystem).

Building upon the four IYAFA regional workshops ICSF hosted in 2022 and 2023 in Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Europe, and the two SSF Summits held in 2022 and 2024 in Rome; ICSF is pleased to be organizing a strategic international SSF workshop in Sri Lanka from 24 to 26 February 2025, in collaboration with FSSF.

Objectives

• Strengthening collaborations and alliances between ICSF and its SSF allies, and enhancing its capacities as a support
• Creating a space for global and regional SSF movements and organizations, to embrace and be strengthened by our diversity, and collectively move toward a common goal.
• Reflecting on ICSF’s strategy and programme of action, and gathering inputs from SSF representatives on how the ICSF programme can best meet their needs and respond to their requests for capacity-building at global and regional levels (including in relation to key international spaces and processes).

Participants

The workshop will include 61 participants from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe – including ICSF members, representatives from global, regional and national SSF organizations, participants from the IYAFA regional workshops and civil society organizations.

Workshop Materials

1. Concept Note (English and Spanish)
2. Programme  (English and Spanish)
3. Field Visit to Negombo Lagoon (English and Spanish)
4. Participants List
5. Logistics Note (English and Spanish)
6. Feedback Form (English and Spanish)
7. Profiles of Organizations
8. Participants Profile
9. Press Release, Day 1: ‘Small-scale Fisheries are indispensable to food security, livelihoods and cultural identity’: Additional Secretary, Ministry of Fisheries, Aquatic and Ocean Resources, Sri Lanka
10. Press Release, Day 2: ‘No grudges against Indian fishermen, just bottom trawling’: Sri Lankan fisher leader
11. IYAFA Workshops: Key Messages
12. Summary of the Pre-workshop Webinar: Report
    • Asia Report (07 February 2025)
    • Latin America Report (12 February 2025)
    • Africa and Europe Report (14 February 2025)

Workshop Photos

• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3

Day 1: Presentations

Presenting insights from the IYAFA Regional Workshops and SSF Summit

• Africa by Ms. Lucyphine Julius Kilanga, EMEDO, Tanzania
• Europe by Ms. Marta Cavallé, LIFE, Spain
• LAC by Mr. Henrique Callori Kefalas, ICSF, Brazil
• Asia by Mr. Azrilnizam Omar, Malaysia Small-Scale Fishers Network for Education and Welfare, Malaysia
• SSF Summit by Mr. Mitchell Lay, CNFO, Antigua & Barbuda

Day 2: Presentations

• NFSF Position on Transboundary Fisheries Conflict in Palk Bay & Gulf of Mannar: Stop Bottom Trawling – Declare Palk Bay and Gulf of Mannar as Small-Scale Fisheries Reserve by Mr. Pradip Chatterjee, National Federation of Small-Scale Fishworkers (NFSF), India
• Overview of civil society spaces in key international processes
  • COFI, Sub-Committees and National Plans of Action for SSF Guidelines implementation (NPOA-SSF) by Ms. Lena Westlund (FAO)
  • International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) and SSF Summit by Ms. Velia Lucidi, IPC Secretariat
  • Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) by Ms. Vivienne Solis-Rivera and Overview: CBD – A whole of society approach? by Mr. Ronald Rodriguez, ICSF

Day 3: Presentations

• Ideas for collective action, collaboration and ways forward by Ms. Margaret Nakato, Katosi Women Development Trust (KWDT), Uganda
• Vote of Thanks by Ms. Ravadee Prasertcharoensuk, Board Member, ICSF, Thailand
• Vote of Thanks by Mr. Upul Liyanage, Secretary, Forum for Small-Scale Fisheries (FSSF), Sri Lanka

Links to ICSF’s IYAFA workshops

• Asia Workshop: IYAFA 2022-Celebrating Sustainable and Equitable Small-scale Fisheries, 5 to 8 May 2022, Bangkok, Thailand
• Latin America and the Caribbean Workshop: IYAFA 2022-Celebrating Sustainable and Equitable Small-scale Fisheries, Brazil, 2-5 November 2022
• Africa Workshop: IYAFA 2022-Celebrating Sustainable and Equitable Small-scale Fisheries, 15-18 February 2023
• IYAFA Regional workshop: Getting the story straight and envisioning a fair future for small-scale fisheries in Europe, 13-16 November 2023, Galicia, Spain
• ICSF Workshops in the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA) by ICSF, 2024 (17 mts.)

Resources

SSF-LEX Country Profile: Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Gambia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda

FAO Fishery and Aquaculture Country Profile: Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Gambia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand and Uganda

SDG Voluntary National Reviews: Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Gambia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda

National Plan of Action for Small-Scale fisheries (NPOA-SSF)

• Developing and implementing a National Plan of Action for Small-Scale Fisheries (NPOA-SSF): A manual in support of the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication
• Developing and implementing a National Plan of Action for Small-Scale Fisheries (NPOA-SSF): Guide for trainers
• Tanzania: National plan of action: For implementation of the voluntary guidelines for securing sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the context of food security and poverty eradication (NPoA-SSF Guidelines)
• Malawi: National plan of action for implementation of the voluntary guidelines for securing sustainable small-scale fisheries in the context of food security and poverty eradication (NPOA-SSF guidelines): 2023-2030
• Uganda: National plan of action: For implementation of the voluntary guidelines for securing sustainable small-scale fisheries in the context of food Security and poverty eradication (NPOA-SSF)
• Namibia: National plan of action for small-scale fisheries 2022-2026

SSF Guidelines translations in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Bengali, Chichewa (Chewa; Nyanja), Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, Portuguese, Burmese, Sinhala (Sinhalese), Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tumbuka, Turkish, Yao, Marathi and Gujarati

SSF Guidelines summary translations:  English, French, Kannada, Swahili (Kiswahili), Marathi, Portuguese, Urdu, Vietnamese, Bahasa, Bengali, Burmese, Khmer, Thai, Hindi, Telugu, Odia, Malayalam, Tamil, Gujarati, Laos and Spanish

GLOBEFISH Market Profile – 2020: A snapshot of production, trade and other data for fish and fish products by country or territory – Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Gambia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda

World Bank Climate Change Country Profile: Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ghana, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka,  Thailand and Uganda

CBD National Reports: Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Gambia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand and Uganda

CBD National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan: Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Gambia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand and Uganda

Human Development Report Country Profile: Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Gambia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines,  Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand and Uganda

Universal Periodic Review: Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Gambia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand and Uganda

Articles from SAMUDRA Report: Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Brazil, Belgium, Chile, Costa Rica, Gambia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines,  Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand  and Uganda

Articles from Yemaya Newsletter: Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Gambia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand and Uganda

Social Media Posting: Selected social media posting from 01 June 2023 to 01 February 2025

ICSF’s Publications
Index of all ICSF’s publications

SSF Summit Reflections Articles from SAMUDRA Report No. 92, December 2024

• Embracing Diversity, Building Solidarity by Ronald Rodriguez and Elyse Mills
• A (Better) Space for Dialogue by Gaoussou Gueye
• Fishworkers, Unite! by Pradip Chatterjee
• Out of the Trenches by Vivienne Solis Rivera
• A Space in Progress by Shalini Iyengar
• Dig in Together by Elena M. Finkbeiner
• Looking Back, Moving Forwards by Nicole Franz

CBD Reflections Articles from SAMUDRA Report No. 92, December 2024 

• Keep on Engaging by Ronald Rodriguez
• Fishworker’s Organizations/COP16: Here to Stay! by by Mythili DK
• Looking Ahead and Beyond by Vivienne Solis Rivera
• Women on Par by Meenal Tatpati
• A Monumental Moment by Shruti Ajit
• Towards Inclusive Solutions by Sudha Kottillil et al.
• CBD: Gender in biodiversity governance by Vishakha Gupta, Yemaya Newsletter No. 70, December 2024

Publications

• Brochure on Social Development and Fishing Communities

• Rallying to Rome: Special People. Collective Processes. A Unique Event
• Report of the IYAFA Regional Workshop: Getting the Story Straight and Envisioning a Fair Future for Small-scale Fisheries in Europe, 13-16 November 2023, Galicia, Spain
• Report on Asia Workshop – IYAFA 2022: Celebrating Sustainable and Equitable Small-scale Fisheries, 4 – 8 May, 2022, The Berkeley Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand
• Report of the Africa Regional Workshop IYAFA: Celebrating Sustainable and Equitable Small-scale Fisheries,15–18 February 2023, Harajuku Hall, Erata Hotel, Accra, Ghana
• Report on Latin American and Caribbean Workshop – IYAFA 2022: Celebrating Sustainable and Equitable Small-scale Fisheries, 2-5 November 2022, Brazil Report
• Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework: A handbook in support of the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication by FAO, 2023
• MEL4SSF Piloting Ghana: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework in support of the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication
• MEL4SSF Piloting Philippines: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Framework in support of the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication
• Report on National Workshop on SSF Guidelines and Women in Fisheries, India, 8 -10 April, 2022, Asha Nivas Social Service Centre, Chennai, India
• Report on National Training of Trainers (TOT) Workshop on the SSF Guidelines (Marine Fisheries) October 13-15, 2022, Asha Nivas Social Service Centre, Chennai, India
• Report on National Training of Trainers (TOT) Workshop on the SSF Guidelines (Inland Fisheries), December 22-24, 2022, Seva Kendra, Kolkata, India
• Report of the Workshop on Sea Safety and Fisheries Management: Training and Capacity Development of Local Self-Governments, 01–02 March 2023, Kerala, India
• Report of WFF-WFFP-ICSF-CIC National Workshop on Capacity-building for the Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries (SSF Guidelines), Multi-Purpose Hall, India International Centre, New Delhi, 21-22 March 2016
• International Workshop on Towards Socially Just and Sustainable Fisheries: ICSF Workshop on Implementing the FAO Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines)- Report, 21 – 24 July 2014, Puducherry, India
• Report of the Workshop and symposium on Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries: Towards FAO Guidelines on Marine and Inland Small-Scale Fisheries, 19-21 September 2011, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
• The Indonesia Workshop Report: Indonesia Workshop Report: Customary Institutions in Indonesia: Do They Have a Role in Fisheries and Coastal Area Management?, 2-5 August 2009, Lombak, Indonesia
• The Zanzibar Workshop Proceedings: Asserting Rights, Defining Responsibilities: Perspectives from Small-scale Fishing Communities on Coastal and Fisheries Management in Eastern and Southern Africa, 24-27 June 2008, Zanzibar, Tanzania
• Asserting Rights, Defining Responsibilities: Perspectives from Small-scale Fishing Communities on Coastal and Fisheries Management in Asia – Workshop and Symposium proceedings, 3-8 May 2007, Siem Reap, Cambodia
• Report of Workshop on Emerging Concerns of Fishing Communities: Issues of Labour, Trade, Gender, Disaster Preparedness Biodiversity and Responsible Fisheries Venue: Fortaleza, Brazil Date: 04-06 July 2006
• Proceedings of the Indian Ocean Conference- Forging Unity: Coastal Communities and the Indian Ocean’s Future, 9-13 October 2001, India
• Report of the Trivandrum Workshop Towards an International Collective in Support of Fishworkers, November 20-25, 1986
• Report of the International Conference of Fishworkers, and their Supporters, Rome, July 4–8, 1984
• FAO – ICSF Project: Strengthening capacity of small-scale fisheries communities at local level in Brazil, Ghana and Nigeria
• FAO – ICSF’s SSF Guidelines implementation project 2018-2019
• Implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) this website is part of joint effort by WFFP, WFF, Centro Internazionale Crocevia, and ICSF as part of the IFAD project for capacity building for the implementation of SSF Guidelines

Other Resources

• Proceedings of the Second Small-Scale Fisheries Summit, 5–7 July 2024, Rome, Italy by FAO, 2025
• IYAFA 2022 – Small-Scale Fisheries 1st Summit Report, 2-4 September 2022, Città dell’Altra Economia, Rome, Italy (English, French and Spanish)
• Gender Equality and the Convention on Biological Diversity: A Compilation of Decision Texts from COP1 to COP15 by Women4Biodiversity and SwedBio, 2024
• The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2024: Blue Transformation in action by FAO, 2024
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture in Numbers (selected tables from SOFIA 2024)
  • World Aquaculture Production of Aquatic Animals by Region and Selected Major Producers (selected tables from SOFIA 2024)
• Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics – Yearbook 2022 by FAO, 2025
  • FAO Stat Yearbook 2022: Overview
  • FAO Stat Yearbook 2022: Fisheries and Aquaculture Production
  • FAO Stat Yearbook 2022: Motorization of Craft
  • FAO Stat Yearbook 2022: Employment Capture Fisheries
  • FAO Stat Yearbook 2022: Fish Contribution to Food Balance Sheet
• Key Facts
  • Total Fisheries and Aquaculture Production
  • Aquaculture Production
  • Capture Fisheries Production
  • Fisheries Trade
  • Consumption
  • Employment
  • Fishing Fleet
• SSF People centred methodology to assess the voluntary guidelines for securing sustainable small-scale fisheries in the context of food security and poverty eradication by International Planning Committee on Food Sovereignty (IPC)
• OECD Review of Fisheries 2025
• International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022: Final report by FAO, 2023
• The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024: Financing to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms by FAO, 2024
• World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2025 by ILO, 2025
• Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report 2024: Overview Pathways Out of the Polycrisis by The World Bank, 2024
• World Social Protection Report 2024–26: Universal social protection for climate action and a just transition by ILO, 2024
• Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2024: Poverty amid conflict by UNDP, 2024
• Global Hunger Index: How Gender Justice Can Advance Climate Resilience and Zero Hunger
• World Report 2025 by HRW, 2025
• SADC Protocol on Fisheries 2006
• IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
• Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (CBD/COP/DEC/15/4, 19 December 2022)

• Social Protection and Climate Change in Brazil: Can Brazil Pursue Twin Social and Environmental Objectives Together?

• Protecting people and the forest, Bolsa Verde, Brazil
• Ocean Panel Progress Report 2024: The second progress report from the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy by The High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy (Ocean Panel), 2024
• Ocean Accounts: What are ocean accounts and why they are important by Global Ocean Accounts Partnership
• Global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services by IPBES, 2022
• FAO elearning Academy
• Governing for transformation towards sustainable small-scale fisheries by Berkes, F. & Franz, N. eds., 2025
• Video: Indigenous communities
• Video: Afro-descendant community
• Video: Community without ethnic recognition

Palk Bay Maritime Transboundary Issues

• News Articles compilation from SAMUDRA News Alerts and South Asia News Alerts (from January 2012 to February 2025)
• Article from SAMUDRA Report:
  • Trawl Brawl: Indian and Sri Lankan fishermen have evolved a formula for co-existence in the Palk Bay, which has long been the arena of conflicts over transborder fishing by V.Vivekanandan
  • Whose waters are these anyway? Transborder fishing by small-scale fishermen in the waters of other nations is a complex issue that calls for an equitable and humanitarian approach by V. Vivekanandan
  • Historic goodwill: This is a report on a goodwill mission of Indian fishermen to Sri Lanka in May 2004 by V.Vivekanandan
    
• The number of Indian fishermen arrested and seizure of assets by Sri Lankan authorities in the last five years, year-wise: Figures (as on 5 December 2024); the number of Indian fishermen brought back to the country by authorities after their arrests in the last five years, year-wise (as on 2 December 2024). Source: MEA, GOI

Other Resources

• Katchatheevu demands thinking outside the box by V. Suryanarayan, The Hindu, April 11, 2024
• Why are Katchatheevu pacts being questioned? by Meera Srinivasan, The Hindu, April 13, 2024
• Bottom trawling by Indian fishermen must stop: Sri Lanka’s Fisheries Minister, The Hindu, December 12, 2024
• Despite laws, Indian fishermen face no consequence for poaching, say Sri Lankan fishermen by Meera Srinivasan, The Hindu, November 23, 2023
• Healing the Sea: India must learn from Sri Lanka’s ban on bottom-trawling by John Kurien
• The Palk Bay fisheries conflict: A tale of competing livelihoods and a depleted catch, Meera Srinivasan, The Hindu, February 15, 2022
• Palk Bay fishing dispute: Casting the net in a sea of conflict by Meera Srinivasan et al., The Hindu, January 30, 2021
• Fighting For Fish: The tangled battle to rein in Tamil Nadu trawlers in the Palk Strait by Meera Srinivasan, The Caravan
• Marine resource management: Conflict and regulation in the fisheries of the Coromandel Coast by J. M. Bavinck
• Fishing for space: Socio-spatial relations of Indian trawl fishers in the Palk Bay, South Asia, in the context of trans-boundary fishing by Stephen J.
• Legal pluralism in the marine fisheries of Ramnad District, Tamil Nadu, India by Bavinck, M., & Karunaharan, K.
• The Political Ecology of Palk Bay Fisheries: Geographies of Capital, Fisher Conflict, Ethnicity and Nation-State by Ajit Menon et al.
• Resources and livelihoods of the Palk Bay: Information from India & Sri Lanka by Hussain Mohamad Kasim
• The Palk Bay Dispute – Trawling, Livelihoods And Opportunities For Resolution – Sitara Srinivas
• The India–Sri Lanka Fisheries Dispute: Creating a Win-Win in the Palk Bay by V. Suryanarayan
• Fishing in Palk Bay: Contested Territory or Common Heritage? by  Dr. V. Suryanarayan & R. Swaminathan
• A Livelihood-based Analysis of Palk Bay by Venkatesh Salagrama
• Building Resilience: Fisheries Cooperatives in Southern Sri Lanka by Maarten Bavinck
• Indo-Sri Lanka Fishing Conflict in the Palk Bay and its Implications for Fisheries by K. . H. M. L. Amaralal
• Fishing  Conflicts  in  the Palk Bay: Are the Indian Fishermen ‘Carefully Careless’ by r M Mayilvaganan
• Sri Lanka: Fishing for a solution in the Palk Bay by N. Sathiya Moorthy
• The Palk Bay Fishing Conflict and the Victimization of Tamil Nadu Fishermen by Xavier Louis et al.
• ‘Troubled Waters’: Maritime Issues In Palk Strait, Indian Ocean by M. Mayilvaganan
• The Palk Bay Fishing Dispute Revisited by R.L. Stirrat
• Lessons for legal pluralism: investigating the challenges of transboundary fisheries governance by Joeri Scholtens et al.
• National Report Of Sri Lanka on the Formulation of a Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis and Strategic Action Plan for the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem Programme  by Leslie Joseph
• Troubled Waters: The Palk Bay Row by Prattay Lodh
• South Indian Trawl Fisheries – Assessing: Their Governability by Joeri Scholtens and Maarten Bavinck
• Transboundary dialogues and the ‘politics of scale’ in Palk Bay fisheries: Brothers at Sea? by Los Angeles et al.
• Between the devil and the not-so-deep blue sea Asymmetrical power in the Indo-Sri Lankan fisheries conflict by Joeri Scholtens et al.
• The Plight of Fishermen of Sri Lanka and India: The legacy of Sri Lanka’s civil war by V.Vivekanandan
• Crossing Maritime Borders: The Problem and Solution in the Indo-Sri Lankan context by V.Vivekanandan
• Conservation, conflict and the governance of fisher wellbeing – Analysis of the introduction of the Gulf of Mannar National Park and Biosphere Reserve by V. Vivekanandan and Maarten Bavinck
• Fishing In Dire Straits: A Sri Lankan perspective on trans-boundary incursions of Indian trawlers in the Palk Bay by J. Scholtens et al.
• Building Governance to resolve fisheries conflicts in the Palk Bay area 11. Palk Bay and Fishing Conflicts Economics Of Fishing By Multi – Day Crafts Of Sri Lanka by Oscar Amarasinghe
• Indo-Sri Lanka Fishing Conflict in the Palk Bay and its Implications for Fisheries by Amaralal K. H. M. et al.
• Improving the profitability of fishing? The impact of collective action in the mechanized fishery of the Palk Bay, India by Susy Caballero Jara
• Like a fish in the sea? Non‐traditional trawl fishermen’s wellbeing in the Palk Bay, South India by Mareike Westhäuser
• Governance, Livelihoods, and Post‐Conflict Development: The role of fishery cooperatives in Mannar District, Sri Lanka by Karsten Hudel
• Issues Related to Deep-sea Fishermen and Their Families Due to Detention in Foreign Countries by Herman Kumara
• Conference Summary Report Conflict Resolution & Sustainable Fisheries Governance In The Palk Bay Of South Asia, 21 – 22 January 2014, At the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Present Status Of The Beche-De-Mer Industry In The Palk Bay And The Gulf Of Mannar by D. B. JAKES et al.
• Fishing wars: The history of fishing conflicts in the Palk Bay, South Asia, 1983 – 2008 by Johnny Cacatian
• Maintaining a Viable Trawler Fishery: A Study of Regulatory Failures and Over Capitalization in the Palk Bay Fishery by Jyothis Sathyapalan
• Assessing the Governability of Capture Fisheries in the Bay of Bengal – A Conceptual Enquiry by Maarten Bavinck

Useful Website Links

• Bay of Bengal Program Inter-Governmental Organisation (BOBP-IGO)
• Brot für die Welt
• Caribbean Network of Fisherfolk Organization, Coordinating Unit (CNFO-CU)
• Centre for Marinelife Conservation and Community Development – (MCD)
• Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements (CFFA)
• CoopeSoliDar R.L
• Creation of the African Confederation of Artisanal Fisheries (CAOPA)
• Dakshin Foundation
• Environmental Management & Economic Development Association (EMEDO)
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• Forum for Small Scale Fisheries (FSSF)
• Gambia Fisher Folk Association (GFFA)
• Indonesian Traditional Fishermen’s Union (KNTI)
• International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC)
• Kapunungan sa mga Gagmay’ng Mangingisda sa Concepcion (KGMC)
• Katosi Women Development Trust (KWDT)
• Low Impact Fishers of Europe Platform (LIFE)
• Movimento de Pescadores e Pescadoras Artesanais do Brasil (MPP)
• National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency (NARA)
• National Federation of Small-Scale Fishworkers (NFSF)
• National Fisheries Solidarity Movement (NAFSO)
• National Fishworkers’ Forum (NFF)
• Operacao Amazonia Nativa – (OPAN)
• Padraka Foundation
• Persatuan Pendidikan dan Kebajikan Jaringan Nelayan Pantai Malaysia (JARING)
• RDRS
• Sustainable Development Foundation (SDF)
• SwedBio at SRC
• Tambuyog Development Center (TDC)
• TBTI
• The People’s for Fisheries Justice (KIARA)
• World Forum of Fish Harvesters & Fish Workers (WFF)
• World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP)

Films and Infographics

• Infographic video on SSF guidelines

• Infographics video on SSF guidelines: Social development, employment and decent work

• SSF Guidelines: Governance of tenure and resource management

• Empowering small-scale fisheries: the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication