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Sierra Valley, CA – A white paper on the opportunities and challenges for management of groundwater under SGMA
Full text linkThis paper discusses groundwater sustainability in California’s Sierra Valley based upon review of various hydrologic and geologic data sets and publications and presents our findings in the context of the 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). The discussion related to SGMA is based upon our current understanding of the legislation. As this legislation is implemented, its interpretation may evolve. The paper provides potential next steps and mitigation strategies as Sierra Valley works to move toward sustainable groundwater management
Profile: Tribute: A fishing village in Kerala mourns Italian nurse Lauretta Farina of Bergamo
Full text linkDid you know that there is a small fishing village called Marianad, in Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala, India, which owes a lot of its history to a public health nurse from Bergamo – the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak in Italy? This nurse, Lauretta Farina, 86, passed away on 12 March 2020, in a retirement home in Bergamo
Milestones: Delivered by women, led by men
Full text linkA report on gender and equity in the global health and social workforce. How do we address the question of inequality in global health infrastructure, especially during the pandemic grip of COVID-19? The report, produced by the WHO Global Health Workforce Network’s Gender Equity Hub is the latest gender and equity analysis on the health workforce – looking collectively for the first time at issues of leadership: decent work free from all forms of discrimination and harassment, including sexual harassment; gender pay gap; and occupational segregation across the entire workforce
FWO: Revive, renew and re-launch!
Full text linkAKTEA is the European network of women in fisheries and its main objective is to lobby at European Union level for women rights in fisheries. It was established in 2006 by fisherwomen organisations from different European countries who collectively volunteered to take this movement forward. For several years AKTEA was unable to organise its annual meeting due to lack of financial resources, amongst other reasons. In February 2020, however, the network was able to meet thanks to the partnership collaboration established with Low Impact Fishers in Europe (LIFE) and the financial support provided by the MAVA foundation
Yemaya recommends: Practical guide for gender analysis in small-scale fisheries and aquaculture in Southeast Asia
Full text linkThe Practical Guide for Gender Analysis in Small-scale Fisheries and Aquaculture is aimed at providing guidance to SEAFDEC (Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center) Departments and ASEAN Member States in the implementation of the SEAFDEC gender strategy as well as human rights-based and gender-equitable approaches in the whole value chain of small-scale fisheries and aquaculture in Southeast Asia. Program/project managers, researchers, and fishery officers of the ASEAN Member States (AMSs) and fisheries-related organizations including SEAFDEC are the target audience
Nuevo registro de Mendosoma lineatum Guichenot, 1848 en Patagonia central, Argentina, con comentarios sobre la comunidad de peces de arrecife
Full text linkSe ha realizado un nuevo registro de Mendosoma lineatum en aguas centrales de la Patagonia. Este registro es la segunda mención después de que un espécimen fue capturado en el norte del Golfo San Jorge en 2012. Se propuso que el espécimen llegó de la Corriente Circumpolar Antártica y esta hipótesis ahora se refuerza con este nuevo registro. El número de especies que componen la comunidad de arrecifes rocosos de la Patagonia central también se extiende aquí. En la actualidad, ocho especies han sido reconocidas como parte de este entorno, y en este documento el número se extiende a quince con siete nuevas especies identificadas
Legislación e instrumentos de manejo existentes para la protección de los fondos marinos en la Plataforma Continental Argentina
Full text linkSe presenta un compendio de instrumentos vinculantes y no vinculantes referidos al manejo y protección de los fondos marinos y/o de los invertebrados bentónicos de la Plataforma Continental Argentina (PCA). Se analizaron leyes nacionales y acuerdos internacionales en los cuales la Argentina es signataria, así como declaraciones de FAO que establecen principios y normas aplicables a la conservación, ordenación y desarrollo de las pesquerías y ecosistemas asociados. Sobre la base de esta selección bibliográfica se analizó la evolución de las medidas a lo largo del tiempo en función del contexto internacional, a fin de esclarecer cuáles son los faltantes y los logros obtenidos en este proceso. Se concluye que la Argentina avanzó en la generación de políticas acordes a los lineamientos mundiales que implican un manejo ecosistémico y un mayor resguardo de la biodiversidad, por ejemplo, implementando Áreas Marinas Protegidas, así como con el enunciado de planes de investigación y fomento que involucran el estudio de los fondos marinos. Sin embargo, para algunas medidas su efectiva ejecución es parcial a partir de la falta de reglamentación y/o financiamiento. Asimismo, queda pendiente la elaboración de planes de acción concretos referidos al estudio del lecho marino incluido en los nuevos límites exteriores de la PCA
Editorial: Build back, build forward
Full text linkBy reminding us of the connection between food, health systems, sustainable development and human rights, the global COVID-19 pandemic offers an opportunity to build forward better. Even as we celebrate the contributions of small-scale fisheries to nutrition and food security within a rights-based framework, which is part of an ICSF campaign, we ought not to forget the context in which these are located. The global pandemic of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), commonly referred to as COVID-19, has swung the spotlight to illness, wellness and immunity. Precisely therein lies the importance of fish as food in various contexts and for diverse actors along the marine and inland fisheries value chain
Film review: hope, despair, courage
Full text linkAn award-winning film, made on a tight budget, captures in powerful images the complexities of small-scale fishers and fish processors in West Africa. I’m in search of happiness. That’s how a young Guinean surprises us in the smoky atmosphere of a sardinella smoking oven in Casamance, Senegal, in a sequence from the film Poisson d’or, poisson africain. Thomas Grand and his friend Moussa Diop show us the price to pay for trying to make a living on this bustling beach. They give us a scalpel-sharp analysis of the complex realities of a temporary community that brings together, for six months of the year, men, women and children from all over West Africa, around the exploitation of fish