Towards a sustainable fishery economy in the 21st Century: Challenges and Requisite Conditions. Case Example from Taiwan and Indonesia

with

Prof. Lichia Saner-Yiu
President of Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development

Mr. Peter Hurst
International expert of Labour Inspection, especially the fishery sector

Mr. John Albert Situmean
President of Indonesian Fisherman Federation

Prof. Li-chuan Liuhuang
Assistant Professor of National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

Prof. Lee St. Clair Swepston III
Visiting Professor, Raoul Wallenberg Institute and Faculty of Law, Lund University

Mr. David Vivas
UNCTAD, Trade, Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Branch

Mr. Claude Heimo
Senior Adviser, Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development

Moderator:

Prof. Raymond Saner
Director of Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development

Fishery is an important source of revenue, employment, and foreign exchange for the developing countries. In 2014, value of total trade flow on seafood was estimated over 140 billion USD with Asia as the most important region for fish farming (Rabobank World Seafood Map, 2015). More than 350 million jobs are linked to oceans worldwide. The fisheries sector has also become the most globalized of all food commodity sectors with about one-third of production entering international markets (World Bank, 2014). Yet illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) catches from distant waters compounded with forced labour and human trafficking are causing huge loss of workers’ lives and depriving fundamental human rights of the fishery workers in general and migrant worker in specific.