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THE STATE OF WORLD FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE 2018
BOX 18
2022 ANNOUNCED AS THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ARTISANAL
FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE
On 22 November 2017, the seventy-second session of
the General Assembly of the United Nations
proclaimed 2022 as the International Year of Artisanal
Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA) and invited FAO to
serve as lead agency for celebration of the year, in
collaboration with other relevant organizations and
bodies of the United Nations system (UN, 2017c). The
year was first proposed by the FAO Regional
Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean in
2016, to affirm the role of artisanal fisheries and
aquaculture in the eradication of hunger, food
insecurity, malnutrition, poverty and the sustainable
use of fisheries resources and hence their contribution
to achieving SDGs 1, 2 and 14. The proposal was then endorsed by COFI; the Council of FAO endorsed
a draft resolution to declare the year, and the fortieth
Conference of FAO endorsed the resolution.
The IYAFA is intended to sensitize public opinion
and governments about the importance of adopting
specific public policies and programmes to promote
sustainable artisanal fisheries and aquaculture,
paying particular attention to the most vulnerable
rural areas, constrained by poor governance and low
capacity for sustainable resource use. The IYAFA will
also provide a unique opportunity to promote the
objectives of the SSF Guidelines. The five years
leading to 2022 provide ample opportunity to chart a
road map for action.
to provide a regulatory framework that
recognizes the contribution of the sector to food
security and poverty eradication. This law is
complemented by specific activities to empower
communities, for example the granting of
harvesting permits to a cooperative, comprising
mainly women, whose activities were previously
informal. The United Republic of Tanzania is also
embarking on the process of developing a
National Plan of Action to implement the SSF
Guidelines. „ „ The first meeting of the new permanent
Working Group on Small-Scale and
Recreational Fisheries of GFCM agreed in
September 2017 to carr y out a socio-economic
sur vey and to establish a regional platform of
small-scale fisheries organizations to
strengthen the capacit y of these actors to
participate directly in decision-making and
management processes.
„ „ The Indian Ocean Commission (IOC), in
collaboration with the Southern African
Development Communit y (SADC) and FAO,
organized a regional consultation on the
implementation of the SSF Guidelines for the
Indian Ocean and Southern African region in
Mauritius in December 2016. Participants
discussed modalities and identified priorities
for the region, taking into account existing
regional frameworks of the African Union,
SADC and IOC.
„ „ In June 2016, OSPESCA and the Confederation
of Artisanal Fisherfolk of Central America
convened a workshop on the new g uidelines
for small-scale fisheries in Nicarag ua, as well
as the first meeting of the OSPESCA small-
scale fisheries working group.
„ „ The adoption of a model law on small-scale
fisheries through the Latin American
Parliament (Parlatino) provides concrete
g uidance on improving reg ulator y frameworks
in support of small-scale fisheries.
At the regional level, the incorporation of the SSF
Guidelines in relevant policies, strategies and
initiatives provides an enabling policy
environment for change. Regions are using
different entr y points to put those policies and
strategies into action, as shown in the following
examples.
„ „ SEA FDEC organized a workshop on the human
rights–based approach and gender equit y in
regional implementation of the SSF Guidelines
in September 2017 in Bangkok.
„ „ The Central Asian and Caucasus Regional
Fisheries and Aquaculture Commission
(CACFish) second regional expert group meeting
on small-scale fisheries in Turkey in 2017 drew
conclusions from a small-scale fisheries survey
and developed recommendations in support of
effective implementation of the SSF Guidelines
in the subregion.
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