November 21, 2024
News & UPDATES
TBTI Podcast
We are also 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.
November 21, 2024
18th Elisabeth Mann Borgese Ocean Lecture
Elisabeth Mann Borgese Ocean Lecture Series commemorates and celebrates the life and work of Elisabeth Mann Borgese, founder of the International Ocean Institute.
important ocean issues. 2024 EMB Ocean Lecture featured a panel discussion on ‘Small-scale fisheries: Food system, social justice and biodiversity‘.
November 20, 2024
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.
November 19, 2024
Remembering Evelyn Pinkerton
Evelyn (Lyn) Pinkerton was a maritime anthropologist and a professor at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. Throughout her life, she worked in fishing communities in Washington State, Alaska, and British Columbia. She has played a key role in developing the theory and practice of power-sharing and stewardship through co-management agreements.
November 19, 2024
International Conference on Aquaculture and Fisheries (ICAF)
The International Conference on Aquaculture and Fisheries (ICAF) 2024 was held under the theme ‘Blue Revolution for Healthy People, Economy, and Environment.’ One of the highlights of the conference was the announcement of the TBTI e-book series, The Beauty and Bounty at Risk, the first book dedicated to small-scale fisheries in Nepal.
November 15, 2024
Highlights from the First Philippines Small-Scale Fisheries National Symposium (PSSFNS1)
The First Philippines Small-Scale Fisheries National Symposium (PSSFNS1) was held on the 16-18 of October, 2024, at the University of the Philippines Visayas Iloilo City Campus with the theme, “Small-scale Fisheries in the Philippines are Too Big to Ignore”. The symposium was the first of its kind in the country that was highly focused on small-scale fisheries.
November 13, 2024
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.
October 15, 2024
Transforming Ocean Governance Research Symposium
On September 12, 2024, over 60 people from academia and the federal government gathered to discuss the role of social sciences and humanities (SSH) in ocean policymaking. Participants explored the challenges, prospects, and next steps for positioning SSH in the context of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, with a focus on fisheries.
October 14, 2024
SSF Regional Symposium for Latin America and the Caribbean
The four-day SSF Regional Symposium for Latin America and the Caribbean, held in Mazatlán, Mexico, brought together 70 participants to share experiences, research, lessons and stories about small-scale fisheries in the Latin America and the Caribbean, and to discuss their viability and sustainability.
October 14, 2024
CBC NL interview with Yinji Li & Kimberly Orren
Check out the CBC NL interview with TBTI Japan hub coordinator Yinji Li and Kimberly Orren, the co-founder of Fishing for Success, a social enterprise located in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
September 18, 2024
Blue Justice for Small-Scale Fisheries at the Canadian Association of CAG
This August, the Geography Department of Memorial University hosted the 2024 Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in St. John’s, Canada. The attendees explored and shared diverse perspectives and methodologies on the theme ‘Edges’ to challenge the status quo and broaden the understanding of Geography.
September 13, 2024
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.
August 14, 2024
TBTI Global at the Small-Scale Fisheries Summit for Africa
TBTI Global recently participated in the first regional Small-Scale Fisheries Summit for Africa, held in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania on June 5-7, 2024, organized to mark and celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the SSF Guidelines.
August 13, 2024
More about small-scale fisheries in Europe
Check out some of the recent publications about small-scale fisheries in Europe. These works cover a broad spectrum of topics and case studies, including coastal and maritime cultural heritage, implementation of the SSF Guidelines in Sweden, participatory analysis of fishing sector in Cyprus, and others.
August 6, 2024
Great learning opportunities in Cyprus
Earlier this July, a group of small-scale fisheries researchers, fishers, and representatives of NGOs meet in Cyprus for the second symposium of the 2024 SSF Regional Symposium series.
July 16, 2024
Small-scale fisheries in all agenda at COFI36
The FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) meets every two years, mainly for Member States to review and discuss the latest State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA) report and other key topics.
July 15, 2024
Interactive Governance: Stock-Taking & Block-Building Writing Workshop
To help celebrate the 20 years since the publication of the first IG book, and in recognition of the great efforts that have been made to advance the IG theory and its applications around the world, TBTI is putting together the 4th volume. In preparation for this, TBTI Global, in collaboration with OFI Module I, organized a five day workshop this past May to facilitate discussion and exchange among contributors of the upcoming book.
June 14, 2024