Posts Tagged "Small-scale fisheries"


By Tyler Omichinski A variety of improvements to the ITQ system have been suggested to better address the social issues which occur as a result of this system. The question, then, is why the American and Canadian governments have been slow to adapt these recommendations into actual management practices. The closest system that has been developed is the recent Community Quota Entity (CQE) program that has been developed solely for...

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By Adam Soliman Plentiful in numbers but with a muted collective voice, the majority of fisheries around the world are small in scale. Comprising roughly 90 per cent of all fishers around the world, small-scale fisheries (SSF’s), make up the bulk of the estimated 34 million individuals who eke out a living in the low skill trade of fishing. Roughly 8 per cent of the world’s population finds itself depending on these fisheries for...

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By Sukanya Thapliyal In a country like India, blessed with great geographical location but unfortunately suffering from some serious challenges of poverty, unemployment and overpopulation, fishing cannot be considered as a simple economic activity; it is an important means of providing livelihood and food security to over 1.5 million fishermen, in addition to others indirectly dependent on this sector. The rapid expansion of marine...

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By Tyler Omichinski Under the Canadian regime, an individual receives employment insurance (EI) when they find themselves unemployed under a complex criterion that we will not cover here. The previous Ministerial Declaration of this round of negotiations took place in 2005. A group of nations, calling themselves “Friends of Fish”,[1] is calling for a reduction in subsidies for fishing around the world on the grounds that subsidies...

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By Adam Soliman On June 11, the MP for Sydney-Victoria Mark Eyking presented the problem of hundreds of fishermen being cut off from their employment insurance (EI) in the House of Commons. Eyking brought to light that over “180 people living in communities north of Cape Smokey — such as Bay St. Lawrence — were denied their insurance claims after a Service Canada investigation into claims between 2007 to 2010”.[1] The investigation...

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