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will examine the closely interlinked issues of access rights to productive
resources and livelihood rights for small-scale and artisanal fisheries
in the southern cone of Latin America. The focal countries will include
Peru, Argentina, Ecuador, Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela and Chile. All
these countries have significant artisanal fisheries, and highly active
fishworker organisations and support NGOs. In all cases, the artisanal
fishworker organisations consider the zoning regulations to be of
major importance.
With this in mind, the meeting intends to examine the issue of
priority access to fishing grounds on the one hand and that of land
tenure on the other.
In addition to strengthening regional networks of fishworker organisations
and NGOs, the workshop will aims to inform and influence fisheries
management policy at national, regional and international levels.
The specific objectives are to:
- promote understanding about the value and importance of sustainable
fisheries, and about fisheries management measures that recognise
and protect the access rights of artisanal and small-scale fishworkers;
- review the contribution of small-scale fisheries to sustainable
development (poverty alleviation, food security, resource conservation
etc) in Latin American countries;
- review the various formal and informal management provisions that
have been adopted by countries in the Southern Cone region of
Latin America to protect access rights of artisanal fishworkers
to fisheries resources, and to examine the effectiveness of these
provisions for protecting livelihoods and for improving management
of fisheries resources;
- within a sustainable fisheries framework, highlight the need to
develop, strengthen and improve measures to protect the access
rights of artisanal and small-scale fishworkers;
- Review the FAO Code of Conduct, and highlight the particular contribution
its implementation could make to protecting and promoting small-scale
fisheries.
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