It is a day of not just a commemoration but an invitation - an invitation to stand more firmly with these communities and to amplify their voices of resistance.

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Against the said backdrop, the World Fisheries Day is as much about recognition of the small-scale fishing communities --- recognition of their strength and struggles, of their histories and wisdom --- as it is about refusing and resisting the futures that would push them to the margins.

...protecting the ecologies that their lives depend on. Their struggles are not only economic but also ecological, cultural, and political -- insofar as it is about who gets to decide, shape, and eventually inhabit, desirable coastal futures!

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As these multiple crises press against the present, reshaping possibilities of how the coastal futures would look like, these communities have been forging collective struggles for their rights and recognition, for dignity and justice, for safeguarding their livelihoods and ...

Small-scale fishing communities are currently navigating a slew of overlapping crises - climatic threats, dwindling fish-stocks, polluted seas and rivers, threatened marine and coastal ecosystems, extractive developmental projects and their ruinous repercussions.

World Fisheries Day arrives every year as an unquiet reminder that fisheries is not just about fishes but about people and places, about ecology and culture, place-based knowledge and relationalities - and how these are inextricably embedded into each other.

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"It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

There's more to Life than the crippling doubts, lingering insecurities, and the spells of un-freedom.

In picture: Glen Coe, Scotland, April 2023.