Another missive via the Retort group, this time from Greenpeace and one that I reprint not least because the "Fish Here Fish Now" line is so very apt. ... read more »

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Posted on 14 October, 2008 - 07:34

Although the website is fairly rickety, and runs only, it seems, on Internet Explorer, the site of the World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers is still worth a look. From their reconstruction work after the Asian Tsunami, to the ongoing struggles of fish harvesting communities and the link between farming and fishing for food sovereignty, the site's worth visiting. More here.

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Posted on 6 July, 2007 - 18:36

I was doubly pleased to see this report up at the BBC. Not only does it break with the "immigrants: string 'em up" tone endemic to British journalism on the subject, but it makes direct connections between the food system and migration.

Pape Barro is another young man who sees no future in Senegal.

When we met, he was sealing up the cracks in an old fishing boat, preparing it, coincidentally, for his third attempt to reach the Canaries.

For years, he and his colleagues had been making a modest but respectable living in their small, open boats and hand-cast nets. ... read more »

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Ch.3. NAFTA, Immigration, Urban Farming | European Union | fishing | immigration | Senegal

Posted on 2 December, 2006 - 13:47