A policy forum to elevate the profile of small-scale fisheries, advance understanding about them and inspire more actions and collaboration to continue to promote and support small-scale fisheries.

Date: Monday-Wednesday 21-23 November 2022

Location: Pretoria, South Africa

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The African Development Bank (Blue Economy Flagship) in partnership with SADC Secretariat (PROFISHBLUE Project), Rome-based agencies, WorldFish and AUDA-NEPAD celebrated World Fisheries Day in Tokyo, Japan with a Policy Forum on the theme: Leading by Excellence - From policy and strategy to action and impact.

The session engaged policymakers and practitioners from multiple governance scales in a roundtable dialogue to discuss policy reforms and strategic action on the ecosystem approach, community rights, diets and nutrition, blue justice, social inclusion, viability, livelihood security and other entry points along the aquatic food supply chain.

On Monday, 21 November 2022, in conjunction with the actual World Fisheries Day, from 23:30-01:00 (UTC+8), Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, the global lead for nutrition and public health at WorldFish and the 2021 World Food Prize Laureate, shared perspectives on the policy framework and strategic pathways to ensure aquatic food diets are harvested and locally produced from sustainable fisheries and accessible to youth, women and wider communities.

Click here to explore the program schedule and event agenda.

Follow WorldFish and the hashtag #aquaticfoods to check out past conversations on Twitter.