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The Climate-Resilient Fisheries Toolkit can help you build resilience now

By EDF Oceans / Published: September 6, 2022

By Jeff Young

Climate change and overfishing are increasingly straining fisheries and marine ecosystems, putting marine biodiversity, the nutrition of people in coastal communities and global food supply at greater risk. Fishers, community leaders and practitioners worldwide are poised to take action, but often grapple with uncertainty, limited data or insufficient resources. Meanwhile, the journey of building resilience can often feel daunting and overwhelming. These leaders and change-makers are not alone in their experiences and tangible solutions to these major challenges are within reach. Read More »

Posted in Global Fisheries, International, Science/Research / Also tagged Belize, Chile, Climate change, climate-resilient fisheries, collaboration, Conservation, Cuba, Fisheries, Fisheries Management, Fishermen, Fishery Management, fishery solutions center, Fishing, Food Security, Marine Protection, research, small-scale fisheries, sustainability, sustainable fisheries | Comments are closed

Leadership in focus — building to a more sustainable future for small-scale fisheries

By EDF Oceans / Published: June 7, 2022

By Bavidra Mohan, Director of Acumen Academy, and Jeff Young, Senior Manager, Global Capacity Development, Environmental Defense Fund

The small-scale fisheries sector is a powerful example of our interconnectedness. Small-scale fisheries employ 90% of all fishworkers globally, supplying nearly half of the world’s fish catch each year. In addition to feeding coastal communities, seafood harvested by small-scale fishers ends up on the plates of consumers from Bogotá to Beijing. Read More »

Posted in International, Policy, Science/Research / Also tagged Acumen Academy, Chile, COVID, COVID-19, Fisheries, fishing communities, Food Security, International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture, IYAFA, Overfishing, Philippines, resilience, Seafood, small-scale fisheries, sustainable fishing, World Ocean Day | Comments are closed

Celebrating IYAFA 2022 with EDFers from around the globe

By EDF Oceans / Published: November 19, 2021

The United Nations General Assembly declared 2022 the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture, or IYAFA — a year to recognize and celebrate the contributions of small-scale fishers, fish workers and aquaculturists to communities and nations, and to advance their development. To celebrate the launch of IYAFA, we asked our staff who work closely with small-scale fishing communities around the world why this year is important to them and what they hope to see happen in a year dedicated to small-scale fisheries. Read More »

Posted in Belize, Cuba, International, Mexico / Also tagged Aquaculture, Aquatic Foods, Belize, Chile, Cuba, Fisheries, Fisheries Management, Food Security, Indonesia, International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture, IYAFA, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, small-scale fisheries | Comments are closed

Collaborative research sheds light on creating climate-resilient multispecies fisheries

By Kendra Karr / Bio / Published: October 19, 2021

Worldwide, there is considerable interest in developing fishery management options that balance social, economic and ecological goals for multispecies fisheries. Ideally, fisheries management should strive not only to produce good yields from single stocks, but also to avoid serial depletion and prevent adverse impacts of fishing on marine ecosystems — a difficult, but achievable task. Read More »

Posted in Cuba, International, Mexico, Policy, Science/Research / Also tagged bycatch, Chile, Climate change, climate-resilient fisheries, Coastal Communities, Cuba, fish baskets, Fisheries, Grouper, multispecies fishery, ocean ecosystems, Oceans, Octopus, Overfishing, sharks, sustainability | Comments are closed

Women in Fisheries Q&A: how women strengthen and support the fishing sector

By EDF Oceans / Published: October 14, 2021

Environmental Defense Fund recently invited Julie Kuchepatov, founder of Seafood and Gender Equality, to have a conversation with three EDF team members on the role of women in small-scale fisheries in their respective countries. Julie spoke with Onesya Damayanti, Community Outreach Specialist, Indonesia; Layla Osman, Small-Scale Fisheries Manager, Humboldt Current; and Ana Suarez, Senior Specialist for Capacity Development, Partnerships and Global Inclusion, Mexico. In this conversation, Julie and our team explore the important roles of women in coastal communities around the world — and how women’s work in fisheries adds value in countless ways. Read More »

Posted in International, Mexico / Also tagged blue swimming crab, Chile, Coastal Communities, Fisheries, Fishery Management, gender equality, gender parity, gillnets, Humboldt Current, Indonesia, Oceans, Peru, Seafood, small-scale fisheries, sustainable fishing, women in fisheries | Comments are closed

How a community-based fishery program is bringing sustainability to Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California

By EDF Oceans / Published: April 20, 2021

By Alexia Juárez, catch monitor, Golfo de Santa Clara, Mexico

For me, the ocean means hope. As a child, one of the things I enjoyed most was going with my grandfather to seafood processing plants where I would watch many women working. I also cherish the image of going out to sea with my father and coming home with the panga (skiff) full of fish that we would later clean and sell as a family. In other words, the ocean has given us everything: wealth, belonging and spiritual strength. Today, I am a mother of two small children, and I feel the need to give back to the ocean so that my children can continue to live from it in a dignified way. I also want to teach them to love and respect the sea and all the life that lives within it.

Posted in Mexico / Also tagged Fisheries Management | Comments are closed