Message-ID: <199901181913.OAA00516@whsun1.wh.whoi.edu> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 14:13:07 -0500 From: Patricia Clay <mailto:pclay@WHSUN1.WH.WHOI.EDU> Subject: risks and dangers in small-scale fisheries - help needed (fwd) To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
If you have pertinent info, p[lease contact Menakhem Ben-Yami mailto:<benyami@shani.net>. DO NOT HIT THE REPLY BUTTON ON THIS MESSAGE.Forwarded message from FISHFOLK: > Some of you may remember the subject of the many hundreds of Indian
> fisherfolks both, man at sea, and women and children wading in shallows
> while colleting mainly shrimp seed, killed by the November, 1996, cyclone in
> the Bay of Bengal. Questions were raised whether were they warned in time,
> and whether they took cyclone warnings seriously enough.
>
> Long before, and even since, small-scale fisherfolks kept dying, casualties
> of their dangerous occupation. And the realities of inadequate warning and
> search-and-rescue services, safety rules and their implementation,
> communication, safety equipment on board small-scale and artisanal fishing
> craft, training and education, etc., etc., etc, remain looming.
>
> Recently, I was asked to prepare an input paper on risks and dangers in
> small-scale fisheries to be discussed on a forthcoming intergovernmental
> conf on health and safety in fisheries involving FAO, ILO, and IMO. Maybe we
> start getting somewhere on these so far rather neglected subjects. The
> picture is far from heartening: there seem to be hardly in existence
> throughout the world any binding and enforced rules explicitly related to
> fishing craft of less than 12 m in length (in industrial countries) and up
> to 16 m in length (artisanal open-deck boats like African canoes, Red Sea
> dhows, Indian kattumarams, Brasilian janghadas,etc., in less-developed
> areas). The general picture is clear, but I'm looking for more bits and
> pieces from over the world, and, with a magnifying glass, for
> search-and-rescue and storm-warning services in most countries...
>
> So, please, do e-mail (to me directly, or to the List, if you think your
> material to be of general interest) any info regarding:
> (1) risks and dangers specific to your area (case stories - welcomed);
> (2) any legislation and regulation on the subjects valid for boats that meet
> the above definition;
> (3) any emergency services and other measures taken by govts., local
> administrations, fish workers organizations and unions, other NGOs, etc.;
> (4) any other valid info, incl. anecdotal.
>
> In particular, I'd expect info from people associated with coastguard and
> other rescue services, people who know of recent e-gadgets that may help in
> locating survivors, survival kits, etc., and other relevant products,
> innovative services and organizations, people knowledgeable of any rules,
> laws, etc., VALID for the small craft, survivors of accidents or maladies at
> sea, and so on.
>
> If this effort shakes anybody into action and if, as a result, even only one
> life is saved, what we do now including your help would be quite worthwhile
> and noble.
>
> Madaleine and others: if you think it worthwhile to pass this inquiry to
> other Lists, please do it.
>
> Looking forwards to your kind assistance, MB-Y
> ---
> Menakhem Ben-Yami
> Fisheries Development & Management Adviser
> 2 Dekel St., Kiryat Tiv'on 36056, ISRAEL
> Ph&Fx# +9724-983-5928; e-mail <mailto:benyami@shani.net>
>