This month the fishing industry is celebrating Fisheries month to raise awareness about fishers, and honour the contributions they make to society. Today the month's activities kicked off with an opening day at the memorial park. The event included booths from organizations that play an important role in fisheries, and presenters stressing the importance of fishers. This year's theme is "Working Towards Zero Hunger with Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries". We found out more about that and the many events planned for this month.
Ronda Lewis, WCS Assistant Country Director
"The purpose being that we want to recognize the contribution that fishers have to our society and our economy. We have a group of activities that we have organized for this month highlighting fishers. We have the fisher of year award whereby we recognize an outstanding fishery. We also have the women in fisheries one as well whereby we bring in the women involved in fisheries and we look at how we can mainstream gender into our fisheries sector."
"The focus for this year's event is the small scale fisheries voluntary guidelines and it basically is one of the first international agreements which look at small scale fisheries and basically it addresses the economic aspects of fisheries governance and it tries to address women and men and the role they play within the value chain of the fisheries sector so that is from pre harvest which means preparation, it is harvest as well, as well as post-harvest where you have your processing and your selling so it addresses all the activates along that value chain."
A total of eleven groups and organizations showcased their services.
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