DOCUMENT

Green, blue and true…………………………………… 4
ICSF’s input to the Compilation
Document of UNCSD (Rio+20)

CENTRAL AMERICA

Conflicts and justice……………………………………. 8
Shrimp aquaculture in central America
leads to problems of environmental justice

CANADA

All together……………………………………………….. 12
The experience of Canada’s MFU highlights
the value of a community-based approach

EUROPE

Fairness or efficiency?……………………………….. 15
Europe is faced with the dilemma of balancing
social and economic objectives in the new CFP

UNITED STATES

The people who spear pollock……………………… 18
The Passamaquoddy tribe in eastern Maine,
US, are indigenous fishers with sovereign rights

CANADA

Good for nothing?………………………………………. 23
In British Colombia, quota leasing from ITQ
holders is a burden for the small-boat fishery

SURVEY

Testing transparency…………………………………. 26
An access-to-information survey reveals
a lack of respect for freedom of information

MEDITERRANEAN

Harmonizing rights…………………………………….. 31
The Mediterranean GFCM is focusing
on fishworkers’ rights in management

CENTRAL AMERICA

Unity in diversity……………………………………….. 36
The FAO’s VG-SSF Guidelines promise to
recognize the rights of fishing communities

REPORT

Community concerns………………………………….. 40
The Delhi MPA workshop showed how protected
areas affect fishery-dependent livelihoods

REVIEW

Coping, changing, imagining……………………….. 47
A review of a book that offers wider
lessons about small-scale fisheries

Comment…………………………………………………… 3

Roundup……………………………………………………. 50