Volume 77
Blue Justice in Small-Scale Fisheries: Perspectives from the Literature and Barbados Fisherfolk
Authors
Maria Pena, and Patrick McConney Download PDF Open PDF in BrowserOther Information
Date: November, 2024
Event: Proceedings of the Seventy-Seventh Annual Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute
City: Gosier
Country: Guadeloupe, French West Indies
Abstract
Fisherfolk in Barbados compete with other blue economy sectors (e.g., tourism, energy, transportation, recreation and conservation) for coastal and marine goods and services. They are impacted by numerous types of acts of unfairness or violation of rights and are experiencing increasing marginalisation. They are concerned about their apparent invisibility and lack of voice in blue economy, climate change and national social protection initiatives and strategies. The extracted verses below from a poem, Who Feels It, Knows It, written by a woman small-scale fish processor, Sheena Giffith, is an indication of some of the injustices fisherfolk in Barbados are experiencing.