Categories Alert, Fiji, Oceania

Fiji – Concern about new fisheries legislation

First published on 02/28/2011, and last updated on 06/01/2016

A letter was written on behalf of both the ICCA Consortium and CEESP (Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature) to urge the Fiji fisheries department – when drafting the new fisheries legislation – to include specific provisions for the recognition and legal empowerment for community institutions governing and managing their ICCAs/LMMS.

Read the letter