Challenges to achieving the right to food for fishery workers

Conclusion and recommendations

83. States should:

• q) Fulfil their commitments with respect to Sustainable Development Goals 1, 2 and 14 in order to end hunger and poverty, achieve food security, improve nutrition and conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development, and fulfil the decent work goal for all by 2030;
• (r) Fully implement the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication, which recognize the role of small-scale fisheries as a more sustainable source of income for many people than industrial fisheries, including by limiting catches;
• (s) Take drastic measures to prevent overfishing as well as illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing by developing and protecting fish sanctuaries, with the consent of and in cooperation with the affected indigenous and coastal communities;
• (t) Adopt measures to prevent, limit and combat the waste and discard of captured fish, marine and water pollution and environmental damage affecting the ecosystem and marine biodiversity, including as a result of intensive aquaculture, and more generally strengthen measures to limit climate change