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workshop 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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