Video Films
Smoke in the Water
A video film highlighting the problems and prospects for developing artisanal fish trade in West Africa, produced by the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF).
Fisheries, and in particular, the artisanal fisheries sector, is a vital source of livelihood for the communities that live along the approximately 4,545 km long coastline of West Africa. There are around 1.8 million people, mostly women, directly engaged in processing and marketing fish in the region. Nonetheless, despite the vibrancy of the trade, several problems confront the sector, while the role and importance of the women processors and traders remain invisible.
This video, available in English and French, provides an overview of the issues involved, and highlights many of the concerns of the actors in the sector. It also reports briefly on the workshop on Problems and Prospects for Developing Artisanal Fish Trade in West Africa and the West African Fair for Artisanlly Processed Fish held at Dakar, Senegal from 30 May to 3 June 2001. For details contact ICSF (icsf@vsnl.com)
Rising from the Ashes
The School of Continuing Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, has brought out a video film on Gender, Globalization and the Fisheries. We reproduce the blurb
In May 2000 an extraordinary group of women came together in Newfoundland, Canada. They were researchers from universities and non-governmental organizations around the world, and women fishworkers from Atlantic Canada.
Rising from the Ashes is a one-hour video documentary resulting from this meeting. Women from 18 countries discuss vital fishery issues from the perspective of gender and globalization. They share observations related to gender relations and aquaculture development, fish marketing, fisheries and tourism, and fisheries management. Questions related to the conduct and purpose of fisheries research are raised.
Rising from the Ashes is recommended for all those interested in the fishery: harvesters and processors and their service organizations; community groups; unions; policy-makers in government; researchers in universities and non-governmental organizations; and students from a variety of courses such as resource management, women’s studies, sociology and political science. Copies of the film can be ordered from the School of Continuing Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. E-mail: fholling@mun.ca.
