The Impact on Small Scale Artisanal Fishing

Many different kinds of vessels are used in commercial, artisanal and recreational fishing.

This cell phone started its trajectory in an artisanal mine in the Eastern Congo.

Further information was requested, particularly relating to artisanal production and small scale zinc and copper operations.

Reports of declining, small scale, near shore artisanal fisheries throughout the Pacific are on the rise.

Fisheries, including artisanal, or small scale fisheries, contribute significantly to poverty alleviation, food security and economic growth.

Several delegations highlighted the difficulties in the use of the terminology of small scale and artisanal fisheries.

Some delegations stressed the need for the involvement of small scale and artisanal fishers in decision making.

Assisting the artisanal and small scale gold mining sector to minimize the discharge of highly poisonous mercury used in gold extraction

Heparin a blood thinner, a pharmaceutical product starts out in artisanal workshops like this in China, because the active ingredient comes from pigs' intestines.

Increased emphasis will be given to the development of rural and artisanal clusters, and to promoting twinning relationships between existing clusters in developed and developing countries.

Fisheries, both commercial and artisanal, are a major contributor in many States to economic development, food security and the cultural and social well being of their people.

The group noted that inclusion in the guidelines of more text on artisanal production would reflect the needs of developing countries and countries with economies in transition.

In Burkina Faso, a project launched in 2002 to reduce poverty by developing the production and marketing capacity of the artisanal cotton textile sector continued to be implemented.

A presentation was made to the Plenary on the Diamond Development Initiative (DDI), an independent initiative aimed at improving the working conditions of, and remuneration to artisanal diamond miners.

Discussions in the contact group on thermal processes in the metallurgical industry revolved around four main themes artisanal production, achievable performance levels, intersessional work and the need for further information.

Longlining threatens the survival of artisanal and subsistence fishing communities, large predatory fish stocks, sea turtles, marine mammals and sea birds to provide seafood that is too dangerous to eat.

The Group was not in a position to verify whether the gold exploration preceding those exports, whether artisanal or industrialized, was conducted with proper licensing or conformed to international labour law standards.

In Chile, artisanal fisheries received only 2 percent of the quota in the horse mackerel fishery, too little to maintain current fishing effort when individual non transferable quotas were created in 2001.

Meanwhile, job losses in the short to medium term can be minimized by focusing cuts in capacity on a relatively small number of large industrial vessels, as opposed to small scale artisanal fleets.

Sustainable use MPAs are defined as allowing uses such as small scale artisanal fishing, recreational fishing, wildlife viewing, diving and snorkelling for example as long as they have minimal impact on the marine environment.

Today, the depletion of ocean fisheries is so significant that effectively it is effecting the ability of the poor, the artisanal fisher folk and those who fish for their own livelihoods, to feed their families.

On May 19, the mayor of Mejillones and various representatives of artisanal fishermen submitted a complaint to the Environmental Crime Brigade, demanding an investigation into the causes of the high death rates among marine species.

The contact group on textile and leather dyeing considered that additional text was needed on artisanal activities and monitoring, and more information was sought on treatment of sludges in the wool industry and safer alternatives to pentachlorophenol.

The impact on local artisanal fishermen and women is nowhere better illustrated than in the Western and Central Pacific where an estimated 10 percent of the total tuna catch is taken by vessels based in the region.

Create a Pacific wide network of Marine Protected Areas on the high seas that allow sustainable artisanal and recreational fishing and tourism along known migratory, feeding and nesting habitats of threatened and endangered marine species Support sustainable small scale fishing

The UN Secretary General's report on oceans and the law of the sea and fisheries (A 60 63) identified a series of threats posed by foreign industrial fishing to small scale near shore artisanal fisheries in its discussion of fisheries and their contribution to sustainable development.

Outputs Community households equipped with adequate arsenic filtering equipment Artisanal gold mining communities trained and equipped with technologies to reduce health and environment exposure to mercury Reduced use of mercury by small scale gold miners and more sustainable use of the remaining amounts Information, materials, books, brochures, web pages published advisory services provided and training programmes implemented.