On a small island in the waters near Jakarta, a group of women are fighting a quiet but determined battle. They are fishers first people whose lives are tied to the sea, the tides, and the narrow stretch of coast that has sustained their families for generations. Yet today the women of Pari Island find themselves defending far more than ...

The Coordinating Committee (CC) of the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) has officially begun its meeting on Pari Island, Indonesia. Gathering on this frontline island of traditional fisher peoples, the CC strengthens the collective struggle for food sovereignty, climate justice, and the rights of fisher peoples worldwide. Pari Island, part of the Kepulauan Seribu (Thousand Islands) near Jakarta, stands ...

  The small-scale fisher community of “Balıkçılar Köyü” (Fishermen’s Village) in “Rize’s Pazar district”, on Turkey’s Black Sea coast is now facing a threat of losing it’s livelihood. The village is collectively resisting plans to install industrial fish cages in their traditional fishing grounds. According to recent reporting, companies are rapidly expanding cage aquaculture across the Black Sea, turning coastal ...

    My name is Fatoumata Hélène Sonko and I am a member of the Mbagga Yaye association in Joal. In Joal, the mangrove is at the heart of our lives. It feeds our families, protects our coastline, and forms the basis of many income-generating activities, especially fishing and the processing of fishery products. When the effects of climate change ...

For decades, fish heads, frames, viscera, and skins piled up at markets and landing sites across Sri Lanka as an unwanted environmental burden. Today, that same stream of material is being transformed into valuable animal feed ingredients that earn foreign exchange, create jobs, and deliver cleaner coastlines. The story of Yesol Lanka, a Board of Investment (BOI)-approved enterprise in Madurankuliya, ...