Access agreements, Artisanal fisheries, Governance, Transparency, Sectoral support
Anaïd Panossian
What future for Sustainable Fisheries ...

In view of the global evaluation of the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreements (SFPAs) that will be carried out by the Commission in 2021, the author highlights the key points which will need to be assessed from the perspective of the impacts on African coastal communities. The author also suggests essential improvements to be made for the future of SFPAs so that they better respond to the needs of these communities.

What future for Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreements?

Human rights

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Issues for local artisanal communities in a potential future EU-Guinea SFPA

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Issues for local artisanal communities in a potential future EU-Guinea SFPA

CFFA comments on the European Commission roadmap on a possible negotiation for a new fisheries agreement between the EU and the Republic of Guinea, which would grant access to European vessels in the Guinean EEZ, and underscores the key challenges local artisanal fisheries are facing.

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Is Blue Growth compatible with securing small scale fisheries ?

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Is Blue Growth compatible with securing small scale fisheries ?

In this new report, CFFA highlights six areas of concern that demonstrate how incompatible blue growth is with the development of healthy, sustainable artisanal fisheries and how it prevents the advance of the responsible governance of tenure to achieve food security and poverty eradication

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Government transparency for ocean governance: Why the human rights based approach should be prioritised, not fighting IUU fishing

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Government transparency for ocean governance: Why the human rights based approach should be prioritised, not fighting IUU fishing

For small-scale fisheries organisations it is important that the international push for transparency is not dominated by anti-IUU campaigns. Poor information sharing between governments and small-scale fisheries affects a much wider set of issues relating to tenure rights and ensuring fair and sustainable access to fish.

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Rights and wrongs: the South African case of fishing rights allocation

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Masifundise explain the new policy in South Africa for securing community rights to fisheries, which they describe as promoting human rights and the well being of small-scale fisheries in ways that will undo the harms of the previous 'rights based approach', based on individual transferable quotas.  The new policy for small-scale fisheries is however yet to be fully implemented.