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Small-scale fisheries face multidimensional vulnerabilities from natural (e.g., disasters, ecosystem shifts) and human factors (e.g., policy, aquaculture, infrastructures, pollution). Despite extensive research on these, the connection between vulnerability and water quality remains unexplored. Fishing communities relate fish to aquatic health, highlighting the importance of water quality. In this webinar Navya Vikraman Nair, PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo, Canada, delved into how water quality impacts vulnerabilities in small-scale fisheries.

Africa remains the world’s youngest continent with a median age of 19.7 years.By 2050, one in three young people will live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Estimates suggest that 80-90 percent of African workers are engaged in the informal sector. Each year, 10-12 million African youth enter the labor market, but the African Development Bank estimates that only three million formal jobs are created annually. Meanwhile, nearly half of all African countries rank in the bottom quartile of Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index and a new wave of predominantly young people risk their lives in search of better futures in Europe and elsewhere because they see none at home.

The pursuit of creating sustainable fisheries worldwide is of utmost importance due to its numerous benefits. This presentation by Dr. Evans Kwasi Arizi, a fisheries scientist specialising in fish stock assessment, dynamics, and oceanography at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Ghana, aims to enhance understanding of the biological and managerial approaches to fisheries. Healthy stocks help improving the socio-economic well-being of fishing communities.

Viano do Castelo in Northern Portugal is a beautiful port city with an attractive historical centre and inviting beaches. But like all coastal places it struggles with the growing amounts of garbage, plastic and otherwise, which spoil the environment on land and in the sea.

Mundus maris friend Prof. Sarah K. Meltzoff - see the review of her book on maritime anthropology - shared pictures of a remarkable public exhibition to alert citizens to the threats of garbage and marine pollution and promote greater respect for the ocean.

 

 

The production and trade of dried fish are important sources of livelihood and employment for poor people engaged in the dried fish value chain. Despite its importance, work on the dried fish value chain continues to focus on financial value creation and linear interactions among market actors that impede the recognition of human rights, justice, food security, and power across the entire value chain. Poor fishers and dried fish processors are placed at the extractive end of the value chain and hold low power in the market and remain vulnerable to changing social-ecological system dynamics.

Blue Fear – navigating ecological, social and existential anxieties during the Anthropocene - Amsterdam, 27-30 June 2023

"Oceans have always imbued seafarers with fear: fear of storms, pirates and shipwreck, and fear of the creatures that live beneath the surface. This conference suggests that such anxieties are currently broadening and intensifying. Not only are people afraid of occasional tsunamis and hurricanes that take lives and ravage coastal habitats. We are also afraid of what we have ourselves unleashed: the realities of sea level rise, climate change, pollution, overfishing and biodiversity loss. Scientists are working overtime to fine-tune the understanding of causes and effects and to provide possible solutions. International policy fora – such as those involved in the current Ocean Decade - are prodding policymakers and politicians to initiate meaningful mitigatory and adaptive action.

„Der Ozean muss an erster Stelle stehen“, sagte der UN-Generalsekretär in einer Botschaft zum Welttag des Ozeans am 8. Juni 2023. Er forderte alle auf, sich weiterhin für die Regeneration, Erhaltung und nachhaltige Nutzung der Meeresressourcen einzusetzen. „Die Menschheit baut auf den Ozean. Aber kann der Ozean auch auf uns zählen?“ In Anlehnung an die jüngsten globalen Vereinbarungen zum Schutz von 30 % der Ozeane - einschließlich der Hohen See - und 30 % des Landes, um das Massensterben von Arten zu stoppen, lautete das UN-Motto für den Weltozeantag 2023 „Planet Ocean: Die Gezeiten ändern sich“.

'Let’s Put the Ocean First’, UN Secretary-General says in message for World Ocean Day, 8 June 2023, urging all to keep pushing for recovery, conservation, sustainable use of resources. 'Humanity counts on the ocean. But can the ocean count on us?'  

In this spirit Mundus maris has mobilised many, particularly young, people since 2013 to celebrate World Ocean Day. Year after year we organised clean-up days, engaged in open air sports activities, theatre and music performances and more in countries on three continents.

Palermo, Sizilien, 30. und 31. Mai 2023. Die regionalen Leuchtturm-Aktivitäten zur Erholung des stark betroffenen Mittelmeers und des Schwarzen Meeres brachten Vertreter von Ländern, Regionen, Städten, Inseln, Häfen, Fischerei-, Bildungs- und Forschungseinrichtungen und -projekten im Regionalparlament, dem Palazzo dei Normanni, zusammen. Der prächtige Sala d'Ercole, der ehemalige Königspalast Friedrichs II., in dessen Fundamenten die Wurzeln phönizischer und punischer Siedlungen zu finden sind und der heute zum Unesco-Weltkulturerbe gehört, ist sicherlich ein prestigeträchtiger Veranstaltungsort für mehr als 2000 Jahre menschlichen und kulturellen Austauschs über das Mittelmeer.

This webinar on 26 May 2023 in the series of monthly events of the V2V research platform uncovered the contributions and impacts of small-scale fisheries through a multidisciplinary approach to data collection and analysis. Nicole Franz, Equitable Livelihoods Team Leader at the Fisheries Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) summarised key results from a multi-annual international research effort labelled "Illuminating Hidden Harvests. The contributions of small-scale fisheries to sustainable development". 

Angeregte Stimmung im und um das Europäische Parlament. Scharen vorwiegend junger Teilnehmern stehen am Montagmorgen ab 7 Uhr Schlange, um ihre Eintrittskarte zu ergattern. Sie gehörten zu den mehr als 2000 Personen, die sich für die im Hybridmodus abgehaltene Konferenz "Beyond Growth" im Europäischen Parlament angemeldet hatten. Nur etwa die Hälfte konnte persönlich teilnehmen. Thema der mehrtägigen Veranstaltung: Wie können wir alle ein menschenwürdiges Leben innerhalb der Grenzen des einen Planeten führen, den wir mit den Organismen auf dem Land, im Meer und mit unseren Mitbürgern überall teilen müssen?