{"id":88203,"date":"2021-10-09T09:25:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T09:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/?post_type=samudra&p=88203"},"modified":"2021-10-09T09:26:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T09:26:17","slug":"roundup-32","status":"publish","type":"samudra","link":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/samudra\/roundup-32\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Roundup News, events, briefings and more…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Women in Fishing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In Abidjan, women in the artisanal fishing sector offer work to young people <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, more than half of the population is under 20 years old. In artisanal fishing communities such as Abidjan, San Pedro and Grand-Bereby, many young people are desperate for work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the scarcity of fish, becoming a fisherman or a woman fish processor is almost mission impossible. With a very low school attendance – on average, only a third of young people in fishing communities have had access to education, half that of young people nationally – finding a job outside the artisanal fishing sector is even more difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To give these young people a future in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, the women of the Co-operative des Mareyeuses et Transformatrices des ProduitsHalieutiquesd\u2019Abidjan (CMATPHA) have reacted. They got together and decided to make room for them in the artisanal fish processing sector. \u201cWe are their mothers, we couldn\u2019t stand by and do nothing,\u201d explains Micheline Dion Somplehi, president of the co-operative. In a show of solidarity, the women agreed to share the benefits of their activities with the young people, entrusting them with various tasks, such as unloading the catches and preparing the fish for processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When the pirogues arrive, young men armed with basins go to meet them to unload the catches and take them to the sites where the women process the fish or to the refrigerators where the fish will be stored. Being a \u2018chargeur\u2019 (loader) is a full-time job during the high fishing season. It involves not only unloading the fish from the pirogues, but also putting the fish on ice, organising storage, cleaning the freezers. They are paid by the women processors they supply, 100 CFA francs per basin brought in. The fisherman whose catches they unload also offers them some fish for their consumption. At the end of the day, if they have unloaded several pirogues, they may have received enough fish to sell some, which enables them to improve their income…<\/p>\n\n\n\n