Aid to fisheries has been part of Swedish and international development cooperation for long. However, knowledge about effects is limited. A new EBA report: ‘Fishing Aid: Mapping and Synthesising Evidence in Support of SDG 14 Fisheries Targets’, summarises what we know.
During the 1990s, fisheries aid shifted character, when support to improved management and organization increasingly came to replace support to increased production. The old Chinese proverb of teaching a man how to fish for him to have food for life, is no longer sufficient. To counter overfishing, as well as illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, has nowadays turned as important.
Is there currently a trade-off between helping small-scale communities to increase their fish catches on the one hand and protecting fish stocks on the other? How can development cooperation best be used to tackle such dilemmas?
Programme
14.00 Introduction
Torgny Holmgren, member EBA, CEO Stockholm International Water Institute
Fishing Aid
Goncalo Carneiro, Senior Analyst, Swedish Agency for Water and Marine Resources
Raphaëlle Bisiaux, Senior Consultant, NIRAS
Overfishing and Maritime Piracy: A Spatial Assessment
Raj M. Desai, Professor, Georgetown University
Panel discussion
Maria Bang, Global Program Manager, The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
David Lymer, Environment Assessment Specialist, Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences
Kristofer du Rietz, Policy Coordinator, EU Commission
Goncalo Carneiro, Senior Analyst, Swedish Agency for Water and Marine Resources
16.00 End of seminar
Torgny Holmgren, member EBA, CEO Stockholm International Water Institute