Women in Fisheries No 38 (September 2023)

Number 38 (September 2023)

Editor's note

This 38th edition of the Pacific Community’s (SPC) Women in Fisheries Information Bulletin has 13 original articles, largely from the Pacific region. 

Jyanti Singh shares how a Social Responsibility Assessment Tool is being used to examine Fiji’s domestic longline fishery. The Fiji Ministry of Fisheries and Forestry wrote an inspiring story on the Women in Fisheries Network – Fiji’s efforts to support women fishers to learn to build boats. Ann Singeo shares how women fishers in Palau are cooperating to revive a depleted sea cucumber fishery. Tara Pierce writes on restorative ocean farms as nature-positive food systems that mimic the ecosystem by cultivating multiple species in one location. Three significant publications have recently come out that are worth a read. The Pacific Community has published the Pacific Handbook for Human Rights, Gender Equity and Social Inclusion in Tuna Industries, a guide designed to assist fisheries practitioners in national agencies, the private sector, training institutions and civil society organisations. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) published the Illuminating Hidden Harvests study, a mammoth report involving over 800 collaborators from around the world, including a team of over 28 gender advisors. Finally, a global review has been published on gender-based violence in fisheries that includes recommendations for fisheries practitioners and policy makers on how to work towards addressing this in their sector. 

Keep those wonderful stories, inspiring projects and publications coming. As always, I am grateful for (and in awe of) our authors who take the time to share their work. We welcome several new lead authors to the bulletin – Taati Eria, Sheryne Kanawale, Muhammad Khan, Jacqueline Lau, Tara Pierce, Ann Singeo and Jyanti Singh.

Sangeeta Mangubhai

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