April 2020 Miguel Lorenzi, TBTI PhD student, successfully defended his thesis on ‘Architecture of small-scale fishing boats: keeping sustainability afloat‘. Miguel was studying at Memorial University, under the supervision of Dr.

Review of the book ‘Life Above Water: Essays on Human Experiences of Small-Scale Fisheries’ Samudra Report, No. 82, February 2020 Written by: Dr. Fikret Berkes ‘Life Above Water’ is available

Author: Svein Jentoft* * TBTI founding member and the SSF Guidelines cluster coordinator   In his recent article, Svein Jentoft examines the position of small-scale fisheries in the era of Blue

Authors: Jack Daly* & Ratana Chuenpagdee** * Former TBTI student, ** TBTI Director The Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) has been promoted as one area of opportunity for

How to monitor implementation ofthe Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries? In 2014, the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) endorsed the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the

Special session for the 6th International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC) 21-27 August 2020, Kiel Germany “Conservation with Communities: Inclusive Governance Planning to Achieve Social and Environmental Objectives” Current interest in

Special session for the 6th International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC) 21-27 August 2020, Kiel Germany “Challenges for marine indigenous tenures around the world and their global contribution to conservation” Session

Regional workshopDecember 11-14, 2019 | Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico Researchers and representatives of civil society organizations from the LAC region recently meet at a workshop in Mexico to co-design a regional

New TBTI e-book offers a glimpse into Newfoundland’s small-scale fisheries of 21 century TBTI latest e-book, ‘Great Fish for a Change,’ edited by TBTI Project Manager, Vesna Kerezi, and written

UKFEN symposium on the future of inshore fishery in the UKSeptember 25, 2019 A workshop on the UK inshore fishery brought together social and economic scientists to discuss future strategies

Authors: Manuel Muntoni (TBTI member), Rodolphe Devillers (TBTI cluster coordinator) & Mariano Koen-Alonso Marine protected areas (MPAs) design is a complex process that typically involves diverse stakeholders, requiring compromise between diverging priorities. Such compromises, when

Sylhet, Bangladesh, August 24-29, 2019 Wetland for Food Security & Transdisciplinarity in Fisheries and Ocean Sustainability The word transdisciplinarity (TD) connects the many branches of knowledge as a mean towards

September 2019 Jack Daly, TBTI Master’s student, completed his thesis on ‘Impacts of International Trade Policy on Fisheries-Dependent Coastal Communities: A Newfoundland Case Study‘. Jack was studying at Memorial University, under

Discussion Summary The linkage between the blue economy and Blue Justice is apparent; however, what the SSF communities are faced with is a combination of Blue Justice issues on top

For the very first time, the graduate course ‘Transdisciplinary Approaches Applied to Small-Scale Fisheries Contexts’ (Enfoques Transdisciplinarios Aplicados a la Pesca Artesanal) was taught in Chetumal, Mexico as part of

(En)Gendering Change in Small-scale Fisheries and Fishing Communities in a Globalized World Panel organizers  Danika Kleiber, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and WorldFish, Australia Katia Frangoudes, AMURE,

Ever wonder why, after all the knowledge and the effort put towards fisheries and ocean sustainability, we are still not there? Worse, we seem to be facing more problems than

The 1st International Conference on Sustainable Fisheries (ICSF) is an interdisciplinary platform for inspiring young educators and leading researchers to exchange their experiences on practical challenges encountered with all recent

The 72nd GCFI Conference will focus on scaling up public-private government partnerships for sustainable fisheries and innovative science. Abstract submission deadline: August 15 Registration deadline (early bird): September 30 The conference will

Small-scale fishers and fishworkers sustain themselves from the life below water, but construct their lives and communities based on what is on land; people who fish depend on their communities