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, ...
23 June 2026 The World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) warmly welcomes the appointment of Carmen Mannarino as the new Director of Masifundise Development Trust, effective 1 June 2026 for a five-year term. This leadership transition marks an important moment for the small-scale fisheries movement in South Africa and strengthens the global struggle for fisher peoples’ rights, food sovereignty, ...
On 21 June 2026, a catastrophic ammonia gas leak struck a private seafood processing and export facility in the Kannigaipair/Manjangaranai area near Periyapalayam in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvallur district. The incident at M/s Peter & Paul Seafood Exports Pvt Ltd (also referred to as St. Peter’s Paul Seafoods Exports) claimed the lives of at least seven workers — with reports ...
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Along the Malabar coast of Kerala, particularly around Thalassery (Tellicherry), a centuries-old tradition continues each morning. Before sunrise, small groups of fishers head out in modest boats to harvest green mussels (Perna viridis), locally known as kalumakkaya. These divers practice a highly skilled, low-impact form of fishing that relies on breath-hold diving rather than modern technology. Their work sustains ...
Fr. Thomas Kocherry (1940–2014) was a prominent Indian Redemptorist Catholic priest, lawyer, trade unionist, and social activist who dedicated his life to advocating for the rights of traditional fishworkers, fishing communities and on environmental justice. Born on May 10/11, 1940, in Changanassery, Kerala, as the fifth of eleven children in a Syrian Christian family, he studied science and law before ...