Small-scale fishers: Struggles and Mobilizations | Nyeleni Newsletter
by La Via Campesina
The United Nations has declared 2022 as the International Year of
Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022) to highlight the
importance of artisanal fishing and aquaculture. Over the past ten
years, and even more so since the pandemic, blue economy initiatives
have been blooming. The 2021 UN Food Systems Summit advanced the notion
of "Blue Foods", which first and foremost means aquaculture.
In 2021, the FAO Committee on Fisheries took unprecedented steps to
advance aquaculture, giving birth to the "Shanghai Declaration [1]"
drafted by WorldFish, industry players, and other stakeholders. IYAFA is
now also showcasing artisanal fishing. Some prefer the term small-scale
fishing, but regardless of the term used, it is always about the way of
life that provides food and income for over a hundred million people
globally.
However, fisher people's territories and resources are increasingly
being grabbed: the entire blue
economy agenda spanning from displacing people in the name of
conservation (Marine Protected Areas -MPAs), to massive-scale
investments for fish farming, to expanding ports to facilitate more
global trade, and to unprecedented sound blasting and drilling for oil
and gas, are examples of contemporary development that have and continue
to dispossess fishing communities. We hope IYAFA will become the year
for fisher people all over the world to scale up resistance and mobilise
masses in demands for restitution and regeneration of nature.
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[1] https://aquaculture2020.org/declaration/
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