Field Notes. How Small-Scale Fisheries Can Become a Huge Success

• Author: Xiao Recio-Blanco
• Position: Director, Ocean Program
• Pages: 63-63

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Reprinted by permission from The Environmental Forum®, May/June 2021.

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ELI REPORT

Field Notes

How Small-Scale

Fisheries Can Become

a Huge Success

By Xiao Recio-Blanco

Director, Ocean Program

ardship, and the central role

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human rights and economic

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the Small Scale-Fisheries

Law and Governance

Toolkit, implemented in

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ians for Global Action, a global

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focused on promoting human

rights.

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and implementing these goals

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this information in the form of

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proaches that are not tailored

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to exercise that right, and

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generating actionable rules and

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research.

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governance elements that

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ties and the creation of exclu

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sections address fundamental

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approaches.

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enough to help advance the

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vide better guidance to achieve

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governance challenge.

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millions.

As the human population

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continues to increase, the

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ranging from traditional, cus

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of coastal communities, and

spend their earnings in the

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The governance problems

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not small either. The most

common challenges relate to a

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to improve management, and

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as an absence of funding for

addressing reforms.

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Nations published the “Volun

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document stresses the close

connection among ocean gov

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