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We are enormously grateful to everyone who has supported the coalition over the past 12 months. 2023 promises to be a pivotal year for efforts to tackle bottom trawling worldwide and we hope you will continue to be part of the global movement to #TransformTrawling.
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CENTRE FOR MARINE LIFE CONSERVATION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (MCD)
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Co-management of aquatic resources as an approach for reducing bottom trawling in Quang Nam, Vietnam
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The Centre for Marine Life Conservation and Community Development (MCD) is a marine conservation organisation that works to support healthy ecosystems and ensure a good quality of life for vulnerable coastal communities in Vietnam.
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Than Thi Hien, Vice Director of MCD, and her colleagues have worked closely with fishing associations and other civil society groups in Vietnam’s provinces for almost 20 years. In 2017 they helped to secure the legal framework for fisheries co-management in Vietnam’s fisheries law and are now tackling the country’s vast bottom trawl fleet - which numbers over 15,000 vessels - with solutions focused on locally-led management and job transfers for affected workers.
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You can watch this video with Vietnamese subtitles here.
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EKOLOGI MARITIM INDONESIA (EKOMARIN)
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Strengthening small-scale fishers' campaigns and resistance against bottom trawling in Indonesia
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EKOMARIN was founded in 2020 to support small-scale fisher organisations through research, capacity building and advocacy.
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Martin Hadiwinata, the National Coordinator of EKOMARIN, works with fishers to develop solutions to the impacts of bottom trawling in Northern Sumatra, where regulations have been in place to prohibit bottom trawling in coastal waters for decades but enforcement and compliance have been constant challenges.
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You can watch this video with Bahasa subtitles here.
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DAKSHIN FOUNDATION
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From bycatch to ‘buycatch’: Understanding trawl fisheries in India
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Dakshin Foundation is a Bengaluru-based organisation whose mission is to inform and advocate for conservation and natural resource management while promoting and supporting sustainable livelihoods, social development and environmental justice.
Abhilasha Sharma, Programme Associate for Sustainable Fisheries at Dakshin, describes the history of bottom trawling in India, explores the embedded inequities that have led to conflict with other sectors and outlines how the growth of ‘reduction fisheries’ have allowed economically inefficient bottom trawl operations to continue, to the detriment of small-scale fishers and coastal ecosystems.
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WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU
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Send us your bottom trawling news or events that you’d like us to amplify via social media or this newsletter! You can contact the coalition at [email protected].
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