{"id":46160,"date":"2021-06-16T16:02:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T16:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev6.blazedream.in\/ICSF\/samudra\/samudra-for-fortaleza-issue-2"},"modified":"2021-08-18T15:42:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T15:42:25","slug":"samudra-for-fortaleza-issue-2","status":"publish","type":"samudra","link":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/samudra\/samudra-for-fortaleza-issue-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Samudra for Fortaleza &#8211; Issue 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">SAMUDRA \u0096 FORTALEZA No.2 (5 July 2006)<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';\">Today&#8217;s Agenda<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\"><b>FAO Technical Guidelines<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\"><b>Biodiversity and Ecosystem Approach<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\"><b>Fish Trade<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\"><b>Panel: Disaster Preparedness<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\"><b>Video Documentaries<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\"><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><\/i><\/b><b><i><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Marginally&#8230;<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">A total of 57 participants are here at Fortaleza to deliberate, over three days, issues dealing with fisheries and fishworkers. Most of the participants (41) are from the South, while eight are from the North. In terms of geographic spread, Latin America is best represented, with 27 participants, while Asia and Africa have seven each.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">The country-wise breakup is as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Argentina 2; Brazil 18; Chile 5; France 3; Ghana 1; Guinea Conakry 1; India 4; Mauritania 1; Netherlands 3; Norway 1; Peru 2; Italy 1; Senegal 2; South Africa 2; Sri Lanka 1; Thailand 2; (Secretariat 8).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';\"><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';\">What&#8217;s Inside<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Reflections &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; 2<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Sound Bites &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. 2<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">On the Web &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. 3<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Darwin&#8217;s Nightmare&#8230;&#8230; 4<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Portuguese &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. 4<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Looking at ICSF at 20<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';\">As ICSF enters the adolescence stage, seven of the Founding Members got together to reminisce about the pastand ponder the future<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">The workshop kicked off with Rene Scharer of Instituto Terrmar, the co-host, and Chandrika Sharma, Executive Secretary of ICSF, warmly welcoming the participants to Fortaleza, and hoping that the next three days would see much meaningful discussion on the various issues that have brought them together. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">In an overview of ICSF, Chandrika Sharma outlined the work done by the organization since its formation in Trivandrum, India, in 1986 by a group of concerned individuals from 18 countries, in response to an invitation from the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) and the South Indian Federation of Fishermen Societies (SIFFS).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Since then, ICSF has been working on issues that affect the artisanal and small-scale fisheries sector, especially in the developing world. It has taken part in and itself organized several significant conferences on these issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">ICSF has engaged with several UN processes on issues ranging from labour (for instance, highlighting the need to include small-scale fishers under the proposed ILO Convention and Recommendation on Working Conditions in the Fisheries Sector); recognition of the rights of small-scale fishworkers and communities in fisheries and biodiversity management within a larger oceans\/ biodiversity perspective (UNCED, FAO, CBD); the rights of small-scale fishworkers to highly migratory fish stocks (UN Fish Stocks Agreement) and the fishing subsidies debate (UN Environment Programme). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">ICSF is a founder member of the Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements (CFFA), which campaigns for fair and equitable fisheries arrangement between the EU and the African, Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) countries. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">ICSF, Chandrika said, has also worked steadfastly to foster a gender perspective within fishworker organizations. The organization has been especially successful in disseminating infor mation and analysis through its varied output, ranging from publications like <i>SAMUDRA Report<\/i>, Monographs and Dossiers, the Yemaya women-in-fisheries newsletter and other studies, and the ICSF website, SAMUDRA News Alerts and multimedia products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">After that overview, seven of the Founding Members reflected on 20 years of ICSF. John Kurien recalled that the original founders of ICSF did not go to Rome (and, subsequently, to Trivandrum) as individuals but with the strong backing of people involved in fisheries. The support of this large number of people worked towards creating a network that is a force to reckon with in the world of fisheries development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Cornelie Quist recalled that her 22 years of involvement with the ICSF process has been a unique experience of mission and vision, and friendship shared between members. ICSF has played an important role in the valorization of artisanal fisheries at the local and international levels. This became very evident in ICSF&#8217;s involvement in the post-tsunami work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">ICSF has not only championed the cause of artisanal fishworkers, Cornelie added, but also of women fishworkers and vendors. ICSF&#8217;s effort to integrate a gender perspective into the dominant discourse was most challenging and unique, so much so that today women&#8217;s role in artisanal fisheries has been more or less acknowledged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">The greatest contribution of ICSF, Cornelie summed up, relates to the conceptual and contextual analysis of fisheries development. She hoped that in the coming triennium ICSF would take up the challenge of a more integrated approach to fisheries policymaking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Hector Luis Morales characterized ICSF as a network of not only support but also tolerance. It is important for ICSF to recognize and address the environmental and social changes that have taken place over the past 20 years. The future lies in allowing communities to be stakeholders in the struggle, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Nalini Nayak chose to highlight what she labeled as \u0093some of the confusions that have evolved over the last 20 years. When ICSF was started, the founders and supporters seemed to be rather sure what the small-scale sector in the Southern part of the world was and quite sure of whom to support. Massive changes have since taken place and, Nalini added, \u0093I am rather confused who the small-scale sector includes and what it represents. This is one of the challenges for us to redefine with our fishworker friends \u0096 who we are going to support and for what in the coming years?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Although ICSF has given importance to the question of women in fisheries, Nalini pointed out, the issue has not gained much ground, mainly because ICSF&#8217;s principal constituency has been fishworker organizations, which are mainly male-dominated. Where the local community is given power in decision- making processes, there women definitely play a role. Nalini hoped that in the coming decade, ICSF would be able to articulate and realize the concept of sustainability where women, men and nature do actually matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Rolf Willmann, Senior Fisheries Officer, FAO, said that ICSF has become mainstream for FAO and is filling a void to counterbalance the presence of the environmental groups by representing the fisheries sector, in general, and fishworkers, in particular. Though ICSF is now mainstream, Rolf said, the crucial issue is translating good policies into ground realities so that we can see real changes in the lives of fishing communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">James Smith recalled that one of the things that impressed him most at the Rome conference was how the organizers were able to allow the voices of fishworkers from the villages to reach the international level. As for the future, James pointed to the need to think in terms of workers&#8217; and human rights, and the place that fishworkers should find in the maritime world. There should be fewer and fewer distinctions between the workers in the maritime field, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">A minute&#8217;s silence was observed in memory of Michael Belliveau, a Founding Member of ICSF, who passed away in 2002. Just before the reminiscence session ended, Nalini reminded the audience that there were actually not just the seven at the founding meeting of ICSF, but a total of around 24 people who came together. Some of them have since moved out due to a lesser involvement with the sector as a whole, while some others remain very active, although at the periphery. In conclusion, Rene quipped, \u0093If ICSF didn&#8217;t exist, we would have had to invent it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';\">Lovers on Aran<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">The timeless waves, bright, sifting,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">broken glass,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Came dazzling around, into the rocks,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Came glinting, sifting from the<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Americas<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">To posess Aran. Or did Aran rush<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">to throw wide arms of rock around a<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">tide<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">That yielded with an ebb, with a soft<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">crash?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Did sea define the land or land the<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">sea?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Each drew new meaning from the<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">waves&#8217; collision.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Sea broke on land to full identity.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\"> <\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Seamus Heaney<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">&lt;On the Web&gt;<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">The ICSF website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icsf.net\">http:\/\/www.icsf.net<\/a>, has several resources on fisheries, fishworkers and fishing communities, including all issues of <i>SAMUDRA Report<\/i>, ICSF&#8217;s triannual journal, and <i>Yemaya, <\/i>the newsletter on women in fisheries. All these, as well as the other publications, are available for free download from the site. You can also subscribe to SAMUDRA News Alerts, the free news service designed to deliver fisheries-related news and analysis daily or weekly, in either plain-text or HTML format.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">For this workshop, a special website has been created at http:\/\/ www.icsf.net\/jsp\/conference\/gb2006. The site features all the presentations made at the workshop as well as useful information and links related to the themes discussed. The final report of the workshop will also be uploaded to the site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">REFLECTIONS <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Alain Le Sann<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';\">Unique, indispensable counterbalance<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Although I became a Member of ICSF only at the end of the 1980s, I had had the opportunity to attend the Rome Conference organized by those who went on to found ICSF. That Rome meeting was determining for me, because I discovered there the burgeonning power of the organizations in the South. The NGOs that I had met up till then were dominated by representatives from the North. The Rome Conference and, subsequently, ICSFhelped me to understand the shortcomings of industrial fishing and the impact of European policy on Southern countries. Fishworkers from the South made us understand that the future lay in artisanal fisheries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Coming back from Rome, I decided to publish a newsletter, P\u00eache &amp; D\u00e9veloppement, and it has been published regularly ever since. Today, in Lorient, France, where I am based, artisanal fisheries is about the only one to survive, industrial fishing having collapsed at the end of the 1980s. After exhausting the fish stocks in Europe, the old industrial trawlers were sold off to Africa, where they went on to create great damage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">ICSF also greatly helped us to understand the importance of the role of women in fisheries. The Cebu meeting in 1984 particularly stressed this aspect. The deep crisis that affected fisheries in France in 1992-93 showed how fishermen&#8217;s wives play a major role in sustaining fishing livelihoods; today, they hold important positions in various organizations in fishing communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">While giving priority to fishworkers from the South, ICSF has been wise enough to maintain links with fishworkers from the North. The evolution of fisheries in the North makes it possible to understand how artisanal fishing in the South may evolve, and what are the shortcomings to avoid so as to guarantee a sustainable future. One of the big challenges for artisanal fishermen in the South is to develop deep-sea fishing, making sure that they avoid using equipment that is too costly. Markets are often in the North and they have a growing impact on fishing communities in the South. Thanks to ICSF&#8217;s network and documentation, we were able to take an effective part in the debate in France around the film Darwin&#8217;s Nightmare, on the export of the Nile perch from Africa. Northern countries import more and more fish from the South, and many people question the sustainability and the equity of such trading practices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">ICSF is a unique network that enables people to understand interactions and evolutions in the world&#8217;s fisheries. It is an indispensable NGO that can strengthen the voice of fishing communities, particularly to counterbalance the growing influence of environmental NGOs, who tend to impose their own points of views. Artisanal fishermen in Northern countries become invisible minorities. In order to survive, they must not only build up alliances with other groups, but also develop links with fishermen from the South, who are much more numerous, to voice their claims on a global scale, once they get organized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">We have reached the limits of the exploitation of the world&#8217;s fish resources and we must now share them equally. The challenge for the world&#8217;s fishermen is not only to defend their fishing activities, but also to restore the productive capacity of the coastal zones in which they operate. We have a lot of such positives experiences from around the worldand they nurture our hopes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Alain Le Sann <i>(<a href=\"mailto:ad.lesann@wanadoo.fr\">ad.lesann@wanadoo.fr<\/a>), Publisher and Editor of P\u00eache &amp; D\u00e9veloppement, is a Member of ICSF<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\"><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Sound Bites<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">On the workshop:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">This workshop should focus on topics like<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">&#8211; access to reserved fishing zones;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">&#8211; co-management of fishing resources<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">&#8211; access to markets with specific rights<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">&#8211; certification of artisanal fishery<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">&#8211; empowerment of fishworker organizations and coastal communities<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">On fisheries in Ceara:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">The State of Ceara has no official policy on artisanal fisheries at all. The last initiative was the creation of a fishing committee in 1995. But since 1999, nothing has been done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">We fishers in Ceara face many problems. The State government has no political will to tackle the problems, and the federal agency, IBAMA, is inefficient too. Through subsidies, the government encouraged the industrial fishery, and too many boats were built. Today nearly 350 steel boats lie rusted and disused, and illegal fishing for lobster is rampant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">The solutions are well known: participation of coastal communities in comanagement, monitoring of fishing resources, genuine control by competent public departments, partnership with international organizations\u0085<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">On the Instituto Terramar:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">The institute was created in 1993 to defend the artisanal fishery in Ceara. Its main aims are to assist fishworker communities and give them technical aid, support coastal social movements, defend fishers&#8217; rights against land speculation, protect mangroves and oppose the setting up of shrimp farms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">These are excerpts from an interview of Rene Scharer by Alain Le Moal, CCFD, France<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';\"><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Darwin&#8217;s Nightmare<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Some time in the 1960s, in the heart of Africa, a new animal was introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species. However, the new fish multiplied so fast that its white fillets are today exported all around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Huge hulking ex-Soviet cargo planes come daily to collect the latest catch in exchange for their southbound cargo\u0085Kalashnikovs and ammunition for the uncounted wars in the dark centre of the continent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">This booming multinational industry of fish and weapons has created an ungodly globalized alliance on the shores of the world&#8217;s biggest tropical lake: an army of local fishermen, World Bank agents, homeless children, African ministers, EU commissioners, Tanzanian prostitutes and Russian pilots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">\u0093Witty, provocative, angry and heartbreaking, this incisive, imaginative film ranges wide in the subjects it covers.  TIME OUT, London<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">(<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Darwin&#8217;s Nightmare <i>was screened here last night. Those who missed the film can request for a private screening.)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\"><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';\">Know Your Portuguese<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;\">SPECIAL OCCASIONS<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Congratulations! <i>&#8211; Parab\u00e9ns!<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Happy Birthday! <i>&#8211; Feliz anivers\u00e1rio!<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Happy Christmas! &#8211; <i>Feliz Natal!<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Happy New Year! &#8211; <em>Feliz Ano Novo!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Happy Easter! &#8211; <i>Feliz P\u00e1scoa!<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Good Luck! &#8211; <i>Boa sorte!<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Enjoy the meal! &#8211; <i>Bom apetite!<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Have a safe journey! <i>&#8211; Boa viagem!<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Take Care! <i>&#8211; Cuidado!<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: black;\">ETIQUETTE<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Please <i>Se faz favor \/ Por favor<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Thank you &#8211; <i>Obrigada<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Excuse me <i>&#8211; Com licen\u00e7a \/ Desculpe<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">I&#8217;m sorry, but&#8230; &#8211; <i>Pe\u00e7o desculpa, mas&#8230;<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">That&#8217;s a shame <i>&#8211; Que pena<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">May I&#8230; ? <i>= Posso&#8230; ?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\"><i><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Conference Secretariat<\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Salao de Eventos 2 (adjacent to Conference hall)<br \/>\nTel: 87390906<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Registration\/Travel<\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">SESC Reception (Tel: 55 85 3318 6000)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\">Money Changing<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; color: #231f20;\"><br \/>\nSADOC (Cambio e Tourismo,<br \/>\nFortaleza. 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