6
Nov
Stockholm
Fish Stocks and Aid Flows: Poverty Reduction in Times of Resource Depletion
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?
Speakers
Goncalo Carneiro, Senior Analyst, Swedish Agency for Water and Marine Resources
Raphaëlle Bisaux, Senior Consultant, NIRAS
Raj M. Desai, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Maria Bang, Global Program Coordinator, Swedish Agency for Nature Conservation
David Lymer, Environment Assessment Specialist, Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences
Kristofer du Rietz, Policy Coordinator, EU Commission
Torgny Holmgren, member EBA, CEO Stockholm International Water Institute
Programme
13.30 Registration and coffee
14.00 Introduction, Torgny Holmgren
14:05 Fishing Aid – presentation of study, Goncalo Carneiro, Rahpahaëlle Bisaux
14:30 Overfishing and Maritime Piracy: A Spatial Assessment, Raj M. Desai
14:45 Panel discussion, Maria Bang, David Lymer, Kristofer Du Rietz, Goncalo Carneiro
15:30 Q&A
16:00 End of seminar, Torgny Holmgren
Moderator: Torgny Holmgren, member EBA, CEO Stockholm International Water Institute