{"id":47378,"date":"2021-06-16T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev6.blazedream.in\/ICSF\/samudra\/samudra-for-fortaleza-issue-3"},"modified":"2021-08-18T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T15:43:11","slug":"samudra-for-fortaleza-issue-3","status":"publish","type":"samudra","link":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/samudra\/samudra-for-fortaleza-issue-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Samudra for Fortaleza – Issue 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
SAMUDRA \u0096 FORTALEZA No.3 (6 July 2006)<\/span> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Today’s Agenda<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Obrigado!<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n As we meet for the last day of the workshop, it’s time to thank all those who have spent several months in preparing for this event.<\/span><\/p>\n We would like to especially acknowledge the staff of Instituto Terramar, specifically, Ren\u00e9 Sch\u00e4rer, Eluziane, Thiago, Jefferson, Soraya, Rosinha, and Giselta Maria. And we’re not forgetting Michelle…!<\/span><\/p>\n Thanks also to the staff of SESC for their hospitality, great food, and help, particularly, Sadi, Alain and Faustino. A special word of appreciation for the translation provided by ITI Translation, Fortaleza.<\/span><\/p>\n For the sketches, many, many thanks to Surendra (India) and our very own Gunnar. And to InApp, as always, great work!<\/span><\/p>\n And now, at\u00e9 logo, Boa viagem…!!<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A long and fruitful day<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n The penultimate day of the workshop witnessed some spirited discussion on a range of issues affecting small-scale coastal fishing communities<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n The first day’s spirited discussions on re sponsible and rightsbased fisheries, and what such an approach would mean for small-scale fishing communities, brought forth concrete examples from Chile and Peru of their experiences with management areas and artisanal fishing zones. These subjects were explored in depth and more specifically in the group discussions that followed. The pre-dinner panel discussion dealt with distant-water fisheries.<\/span><\/p>\n The level of enthusiasm set on the first day continued on Day 2, a fairly packed day that saw discussions ranging from the role of the FAO in alleviating the conditions of poverty in fishing communities to trade in fish and fish products and how coastal communities should prepare for natural disasters.<\/span><\/p>\n In an exhaustive presentation, Rolf Willman, Senior Fisheries Planning Officer, FAO, described the possible strategies and policies that could be employed to allow small-scale fisheries to help alleviate poverty and contribute to food security. Small-scale fisheries are undervalued and deserve more attention in policymaking, research and fisheries information systems. They should be provided with greater rights and access to fishery resources, land, water, technology, knowhow and capital, Rolf concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n The session on biodiversity and the ecosystem approach featured an elaboration of the CBD process , how marine extractive reserves can serve as an alternative approach to participatory conservation, and the small-scale fisheries perspective on the ecosystem approach to fisheries and oceans<\/span><\/p>\n The post-lunch session on trade in fish and fish products focused on the World Trade Organization and the role of trade in food security. There was also an analysis of how the French public responded to the film Darwin’s Nightmare <\/i>and the role of globalization in the trade of the Nile Perch. How ecolabels affect the small-scale fisheries in Latin America was also discussed. The panel discussion on disaster preparedness and coastal fishing communities featureda range of experiences and potential strategies to mitigate the effects of natural disasters.<\/span><\/p>\n The post-dinner screening of films rounded off a long and fruitful day, and hopefully set the tone for today, the concluding day of the workshop.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n What’s Inside<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Reflections ……………… 2<\/span><\/p>\n Sound Bites …………….. 3<\/span><\/p>\n Reflections ……………… 4<\/span><\/p>\n Gunnar’s Album ……….. 6<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n REFLECTIONS | <\/span><\/b>Nalini Nayak<\/span><\/p>\n More ups than downs<\/span><\/p>\n I am not generally a person who lives in the past, although I do look back at times to take stock of where I am going and why. When I was requested a reflection for SAMUDRA for Fortaleza <\/i>on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of ICSF, lots of memories did come back, and one can say they range wide from high moments to low, from very successful programmes to some mediocre ones, from very engaging and stimulating friendships to some broken ones, from serious and hard work to exciting, fun times, but always, very constructive discussion and debates that have contributed to \u0091valorizing the coastal fisheries’. On average, the ups seem to outweigh the downs.<\/span><\/p>\n At the close of the Rome Conference in 1984, the fishworkers present suggested that the supporters continue to support the coastal fishers in their struggle for survival, while they themselves would create and strengthen their collective organizations, demanding their rights to recognition and survival. While the fishworker organizations maintained their autonomy and grew the world over, the ICSF that was created in 1986 sought to:<\/span><\/p>\n \u0095 build bridges between fishworkers in regions where their fisheries were linked through bilateral agreements;<\/span><\/p>\n \u0095 see that the coastal fishery and fishworkers found a place in the international discourse and decisionmaking in world fisheries; and<\/span><\/p>\n \u0095 provide inputs to fishworker organizations on macro-developments that affect them at the micro-level.<\/span><\/p>\n I may not be wrong in concluding that ICSF has made significant strides in these directions, and, from that point of view, these two decades have been well worth it.<\/span><\/p>\n But this does not preclude the fact that these years have also been tumultuous. While change is inevitable, I do not think any of us foresaw the speed or manner in which the entire equations of international relations and the mindset of development would change. In a way, capitalism and neoliberalism triumphed, shattering our organizational struggles against that twin ideology, shattering the strength of the organized working class by atomizing and ‘unorganizing’ it. The socialist option was rendered outdated, although the \u0091rights perspective’ gained ground in the new global village, where the most powerful still call the shots.<\/span><\/p>\n These changes have affected coastal communities, fishworkers, fishworker organizations and all of us in so many ways. While several have been pauperized and rendered redundant, the surviving segment has got overcapitalized and has joined the race to chase the last fish. So has our definition of the ‘coastal fisher’, the ‘artisanal fisher’, the ‘small-scale fisher’ changed? By the very fact that we have worked mainly with fishworker organizations, the base that we relate to has continued to be those fishers that have survived.<\/span><\/p>\n But here again, there have been several catches: these are generally male fishers, and this has been one of the main reasons that women have got a back seat and probably one of the reasons why the feminist perspective within ICSF has not evolved to the extent it should have. This does not discount the work done and achieved in this regard, because ICSF has played a significant role in spreading a feminist and gender perspective and awareness among women from fishing communities, which has been the basis for them to organize and thereby expand the horizon and canvas of the coastal fishery.<\/span><\/p>\n The other disturbing happening has been the divisiveness in the fishworker organizations themselves, at a time when the world economy is converging as never before. While ICSF spent long years building bridges and understanding between fishworker organizations of the North and the South, East and West, great mistrust and divisiveness developed when the organizations themselves took the lead in linking up globally. Moreover, the management of power within the organizations themselves has highlighted that alternative forms of organization have not sufficiently evolved to create workable options at the base. Here again, I would venture to add that patriarchal forms of leadership and vision have contributed to this shortcoming.<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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