Conference Name:Asia Regional Workshop: SDG 14.b and Associated Indicator 14.b.1, 6-8 July 2021, Virtual Workshop
Date: 08-07-2021
Abstract: Genesis of SDG 14.b
1992 Agenda 21 recognizes the rights of small-scale fishworkers to utilize fishery resources and to protect their habitats on a sustainable basis
1995 UNFSA recognizes access of subsistence, small-scale artisanal fishers, as well as indigenous people and women fishworkers, in developing countries to highly migratory fish stocks
1995 CCRF recognizes preferential access rights of subsistence, small-scale fishers and fishworkers to their traditional fishing grounds and resources
2012 The Future We Want: Seeks to ensure access to fisheries and access to markets, by subsistence, small-scale and artisanal fisherfolk and women fish workers, as well as indigenous peoples and their communities
2014 SSF Guidelines (i) reiterates preferential access to fishery resources and land; (ii) recognizes the need for secure tenure rights of small-scale fishing communities to marine and inland fishery resources, to fishing grounds, and to the adjacent land with special attention paid to women in regard to tenure rights; and to (iii) restore access to traditional fishing grounds
2014 SSF Guidelines: Facilitate access to local, national, regional and international markets and promote equitable and non-discriminatory trade for small-scale fisheries products…
