TBTI Global Webinar

World Day of Social Justice

February 20, 2025

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Part 1: 9:00AM EST

Sustainable small-scale fisheries:

Why it is not possible without social justice

A presentation of a new FAO book edited by Fikret Berkes & Nicole Franz

‘Governing for Transformation towards Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries’

The new book ‘Governing for Transformation towards Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries’ provides a human-centred perspective, building on the expanding horizon from biological and economic management to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary aquatic resources governance. It was prepared in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines). It also provides an update of Berkes’ book, Coasts for People. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Coastal and Marine Resource Management (Routledge, 2015). The original chapters of the book served as the first draft of seven of the chapters, all of them rewritten with multiple authors (total of 20 co-authors) and with an explicit focus on small-scale fisheries through the lens of the SSF Guidelines.

The intended audience for the volume is broad-based and includes fisheries and aquatic management practitioners and policymakers, scientists and educators. It is an invitation to a new generation of resource managers to be aware of how approaches and concepts have evolved over time to embrace the challenge of interdisciplinarity and complexity to advance the transformation towards sustainable small-scale fisheries.

Speakers

Dr. Fikret Berkes is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. He is a marine ecologist by background who is fascinated by the diversity of relationships between societies and their resources. He has worked with small-scale fisheries in various parts of Canada and diverse areas of the world. Dr. Berkes is the recipient of the ESA Sustainability Science Award, the IASC Elinor Ostrom Award for Senior Scholar, and the IUCN – CEESP Inaugural Award for Meritorious Research.

Nicole Franz is an economist and joined the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as Fishery Planning Analyst in 2011. Her work focuses on small-scale fisheries policies and socio-economic issues, and more specifically on the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines). Nicole leads  the Equitable Livelihoods Team in FAO’s Fisheries and Aquaculture Division.

Moderator

Ratana Chuenpagdee is TBTI Global Director and a University Researcher Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, Canada. Her research emphasizes transdisciplinary approaches to coastal fisheries and ocean governance, focusing particularly on small-scale fisheries. Aside from TBTI, she also co-leads a research module on informing governance responses in a changing ocean for the Ocean Frontier Institute, another major collaborative research.

Part 2: 10:00 AM EST

Blue Justice Alert

Oil spill and swell in Lobitos, Peru

[The webinar will be in Spanish // El webinario será en español]

A presentation about the incidents in Lobitos on Dec 20th and the devastating impact on small-scale fisheries and the communities

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.

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Speakers

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Emi Koch is a social-ecologist who utilizes community-based participatory research approaches to understand fisheries scarcity’s impact on small-scale fishing communities’ well-being and resilience. Emi co-founded Coast 2 Coast, a nonprofit based in Lobitos, Peru, that combines investigation with imagination, working with rural students from fishing villages using storytelling tools + participatory research approaches for young learners to explore and communicate their small-scale fishing importance. She is a Fulbright Fellow and National Geographic Explorer from San Diego, California, living in Lobitos, Peru. 

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Tulio Ever Chapilliquén Bayona is an artisanal fisher from Lobitos, a small fishing village in Northern Peru. With over 40 years of experience, Tullio began learning the art of fishing at the age of 12 from his grandfather and father. His deep knowledge of the sea – its winds, currents, and storms – has shaped his lifelong connection to the ocean and his community. Tullio is the founder of Lobitos Ocean Adventure, a project that shares the ancestral art of fishing with visitors and promotes sustainable practices. Passionate about preserving marine resources, his dream is to create marine fishing areas for future generations of fishers, ensuring a sustainable future for his village.

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Henry Espinoza Panta is the director of WAVES Lobitos, a nonprofit located in Lobitos, an artisanal fishing village in Northern Peru that employs surfing, skating, and other enrichment tools to engage local youth in their own development and that of their community. The son of a local fishing family and a former WAVES participant, Henry is passionate about the well-being of his remote fishing village. He is an accomplished surfer and photographer.

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Ivan Vite Bancayan is an associate in “Lobitos Poncho,” a project that seeks to help elderly women and young people from Lobitos with the production of artisanal surf towels. With the help of this project and his family of artisanal fishers, he completed his studies in Environmental Engineering at the Universidad Privada del Norte de Trujillo. He is currently a member of the environmental monitoring committee of Lobitos, with the purpose of protecting the natural resources of his small-scale fishing community.

Moderator

Milena Arias-Schreiber is a Researcher and Project Leader at the Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden. With a background on marine ecology and doctoral studies in the social sciences from the University of Bremen (Germany), her research focuses on institutional challenges for sustainable fisheries management. On this topic, she has worked with commercial anchovy fisheries for fishmeal production in the Peruvian Upwelling Ecosystem and with small-scale fisheries in the Baltic Sea.