On December 20, 2024, Peru’s state-owned petroleum enterprise, Petroperú, was performing pre-shipping operations from the Talara Refinery's underwater terminal when technicians detected a leak. The resulting oil spill rapidly spread north along the coast, blanketing the ocean and beaches with crude oil. Over 471,400 square meters of seawater and 47 kilometers of coastline was affected, stretching from the Talara Refinery to Cabo Blanco.

Blue Justice Alert: Oil Spill and Massive Swell Hit Lobitos’ Small-Scale Fishing Community in Peru

On December 20, 2024, Peru’s state-owned petroleum enterprise, Petroperú, was performing pre-shipping operations from the Talara Refinery’s underwater terminal when technicians detected a leak. The resulting oil spill rapidly spread north along the coast, blanketing the ocean and beaches with crude oil. Over 471,400 square meters of seawater and 47 kilometers of coastline was affected, stretching from the Talara Refinery to Cabo Blanco.

TBTI Podcast

We are pleased to share with you our new TBTI podcast series that explores our journey from how we started to where we are today. We hope that this series will be interesting to those familiar with our work, those who are new to the network, as well as those who have yet to join.

2024 World Fisheries Day

For 2024 World Fisheries Day, we’re contemplating the idea “Just Harmony,” as a way to bring attention to how small-scale fisheries can help restore or bring harmony to coastal and ocean space. It’s harmony in the sense of being respectful of each other, and of the differences. It is also in the sense of working together to deal with the ‘best’ option that does not necessarily seem to be ‘just’, at least not from the perspective of small-scale fisheries. Just Harmony can be learning moments for all, like learning to live together, despite our differences.

New book: Life Beyond the Tōhoku Disasters by Alyne E. Delaney

This book explores, in rich, ethnographic detail, the lives of a group of Japanese fishers and community residents in coastal Japan in the aftermath of the tsunami generated from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Focused on one town in Miyagi Prefecture near the epicenter of the 2011 quake, the text provides a singularly unique opportunity to hear, in their own voices, individuals’ reflections and experiences on life after the disasters while also drawing upon anthropological fieldwork data from many of the same individuals 10 years prior to the disaster.

A sneak preview of TBTI Malaysia

If you have been following our news, you would have noticed that an official launch of a TBTI country hub is accompanied by a cake. We didn’t have that in Kuala Lumpur when the writing team came together to work on the SSF Malaysia E-book in July.

Transdisciplinarity in Fisheries and Ocean Sustainability

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Blue Justice: Small-Scale Fisheries in a Sustainable Ocean Economy

Blue Justice: Small-Scale Fisheries in a Sustainable Ocean Economy. For small-scale fisheries around the world, the Blue Growth and Blue Economy initiatives may provide sustainable development, but only insofar as they align with the global consensus enshrined in the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication.

Highlights from the ‘Blue Justice – Alert to Action’ campaign

On February 20th, the World’s Day of Social Justice, TBTI Global brought forward a collection of stories about Blue Justice in Small-Scale Fisheries from nine countries. Each of the stories depicts issues of (in)justice, in voices of those directly affected by it – the small-scale fishers themselves.
We summarized these highlights in an infograhic and a short video that can be viewed on TBTI YouTube channel. And while you’re there, be sure to check the original videos that were released on February 20, plus a few more that we have received since then.

The consequences of the fishmeal and fish oil industry on Senegal’s food security

In the coastal nation of Senegal, a complex interplay between global market demands and local food security is unfolding. Despite an increase in fish landings, the proliferation of the fishmeal and fish oil (FMFO) industry, driven by the insatiable global appetite for products like supermarket salmon, is not only failing to alleviate national food insecurity but is exacerbating it.

‘Double Majority’ – Women Among Many in TBTI

The theme of the 2024 International Women’s Day, as designated by the United Nations, is ‘Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress’. TBTI women, and what they say in the post, is a good testament of why investing in women makes a lot of sense.

Upcoming book: Policy Sciences and the Human Dignity Gap

Over the past 75 years, democratic societies have reaffirmed their strong commitment to upholding human dignity in healthy environments. In practice, however, achieving human dignity has had a mixed record of outcomes, with major shortfalls across diverse problem context. Led by Susan Clark and co-authored by Evan Andrews and Ana Lambert, this book addresses this discrepancy, conceived as the human dignity gap, and provides concepts, tools, and strategies for citizens and leaders to close the gap. The book is available for pre-sale.

Three new articles featured in Samudra

The latest issue of Samudra features three articles written by the TBTI members and contributors. In ‘Old Values, New Challenges’, Yinji Li discusses current challenges faced by fishing communities in Japan and highlights Umigyo approach as a way to ensure the rights and livelihoods of fishing communities. In ‘A New Era of Hope’, Ratana Chuenpagdee highlights the commitments needed to strengthen the knowledge of small-scale fisheries and protect their livelihoods, outlining the efforts done by TBTI Global within the context of the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022) and the 10th Anniversary of the SSF Guidelines. In ‘A Sense of Home’ Maarten Bavinck reviews Svein Jentoft’s latest book ‘The Gift of Community – More Essays on Human Experiences of Small-scale Fisheries’ and commends the author’s unique perspective in exploring the human side of the relationship between the small-scale fisheries and their communities.