Justice and Human Rights Mexico Project #57041

Enhance social wellbeing in small scale fisheries

by Hagamos Mas por Santa Rosalia, A.C.

Enhance social wellbeing in small scale fisheries

Project Report | May 24, 2023
Enhance social wellbeing in small scale fisheries

By Alma Colorado | Lider de Proyecto

Our sustainable fisheries work group is beginning to contribute measurably to activities in the fishing community, including helping to obtain permits, forming cooperatives, and teaching methods to prepare value-added products. Advances in each of these areas continued in January. Monitoring activities continued, additions to PESCADATA were made, and approval for a third year of funding was received for a third year of funding from Fondo Mexicano para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (FMCN). The Year Two final report was submitted to FMCN and various meetings were held with fishing cooperatives and government authorities involved in fishing activities.

Fishermen Assistance Program

FHMSR provides ongoing assistance to fishermen to help them locate their Social Security Number, provide them with advice on weeks of contribution and pension procedures, and obtain CURPs and certificates of birth. However, there was no activity in this program in January.

Sustainable Fisheries Sustainable fisheries activities fall broadly into three categories:

Monitoring,

The monitoring program that was initiated in 2021 continued successfully in three ports (Santa Rosalía, San Bruno, H. Mulegé) during the month, now with 595 man-days of monitoring conducted to date. In December, the 100 days of fin-fish monitoring forecast for the year were completed, with over 3,000 individuals comprising 44 species measured for size and weight. In January 2023, a third year of monitoring was initiated, and 301 organisms collected from 35 disembarkations were measured (Table 1). Organisms were sampled from 1,120 disembarkations in 2022. Monitoring is paid for by a grant from Fondo Mexicano para la Conservación de la Naturaleza.

Information exchange

PESCADATA is a mobile application that permits digital registration of catch data and effort within the framework of our sustainable fisheries project.

Six participants are now uploading data directly to the app, use of which began in 2021. So far in, 13 days of fishing have been registered through the application.

The final activities report for the second year of the project, “Developing Sustainable Fisheries in the Central Gulf of California” was submitted to FMCN in January.

Meetings and presentations held in January included a third meetings with municipal fishery personnel, meetings with two local cooperatives regarding social responsibility as evaluated through a SmartFish program, and presentation of MSFP advances to the general community through the annual HMSR annual presentation made each year by Alma Colorado, director of HMSR.

A collaboration began in January with SmartFish to evaluate the degree of transparency that exists between the cooperatives, permit-holders, and vendors of the Santa Rosalía Cooperatives.

Two Santa Rosalía cooperatives were visited (SCPP Cuesta Hno and SCPP Acuarios 2000) to conduct an initial survey using the “SmartFish Index of Rescue of Value” in the cooperatives and discover the possibilities of working with them in a program of rescuing the value of the catches made by the cooperatives. Results of this SmartFish diagnostic are awaited.

The MSFP team attended the third session of the above-referenced governmental subcommittee, in which three levels of government as well as other maritime authorities listened to fishermen in the Santa Rosalia – Heroic Mulegé corridor. These authorities took under consideration such issues of the management of a hyperbaric chamber.

The team met to talk about the developing program for a second year of recovery of ghost fishing gear and marine plastic litter. Telephone contact was made with each of the communicators (promotoras) to learn about their progress with the fishermen and goals for the close-out of Year 1 funding. According to the communicators, there are no nets currently available for collection.

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Mar 2, 2023
Awareness and adoption of social responsibility

By Julio Cesar Parra Alaniz | Project Leader

June - July (2022)

The bibliography on the Human Rights and Social Responsibility Policy recognized by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and Fishery Progress (FP) was managed, ordered and synthesized. The team was prepared with the online course on Human Rights and Social Responsibility entitled "Upcoming SRA Training" endorsed by Fishery Progress and delivered by ELEVATE AN LRQA COMPANY. Conducted field visits to Santa Rosalía, San Bruno and H. Mulegé and held face-to-face meetings with members of the Fisheries Improvement Project (FIP) and provided information related to the development of awareness of Social Responsibility in the construction of the Fisheries Improvement Project.

July - August (2022)

Planned workshops to be implemented to comply with requirements 1.1 (Declaration on Human Rights Policy (DPDH) (formerly the Code of Conduct) and 1.5 (Self-assessment of risk) which are part of the first dossier to register the FIP on the Fishery Progress platform. Field visits were made to Santa Rosalía, San Bruno and H. Mulegé and face-to-face meetings were held with members of the FIP and some producers involved in the FIP. Supported the development of COBI trainings for the use of PescaData in the communities of Santa Rosalia and San Bruno. Members of the FIP implementation team were provided with information related to the development of Social Responsibility for the Fisheries Improvement Project.The Social Responsibility Assessment Tool for Fishery Progress was developed.

A working collaboration (in verbal agreement) was established with the coordinator of FIPs of Smart Fish ONG and the action path of the social aspect was corroborated under his advice. Pre-agreements were established on the productive and economic aspect of the producers once the FIP was registered in the Fishery Progress platform.

September - October (2022)

Participation in the weekly meetings of the FIP implementation team; Fundación Hagamos Más por Santa Rosalía and ECOWB.

Documents 1.1 and 1.5 required by FP were signed in the first complete dossier of the FIP at the meetings of the Fisheries sub-committee. Conducting Social Responsibility surveys were made. Enrollment in training/alignment for certification in the EC 0301 and 0217.01 Competence Standards dealing with the development of courses for individuals and groups of people and their delivery. A project has been consolidated to obtain funding in the Social Responsibility program for the FIP on the GlobalGiving platform.

October - November (2022)

Participation in the weekly meetings of the FIP implementation team; Fundación Hagamos Más por Santa Rosalía and ECOWB. The surveys were applied and a preliminary report of them was constructed, it was possible to apply 22 surveys of Social Responsibility in the Sustainable Fisheries project. Participated in the meeting of the Subcommittee on Fisheries for the presentation of the work of Social Responsibility, specifically worked on documents 1.1 and 1.5 required by FP in the first complete dossier of the FIP. The documents (1.1 and 1.5) have been signed by leaders of fishing cooperatives, local suppliers of fishery inputs, legal representative of fisheries in the region and competent authorities in the fisheries sector, State, Municipal and Institutional (CONAPESCA and INAPESCA).

The Social Responsibility program and the Fisheries Improvement Project were presented to the authorities and disseminated in local digital news:

SESIONA SUBCOMITÉ DE PESCA Y ACUACULTURA SUSTENTABLE EN MULEGÉ.

November - December (2022)

Planned information management on Social Responsibility through participatory workshops with fishermen. Field visits were held during which working meetings were held with the members of the FHMSR and ECOWB teams. They also held three participatory workshops with communities in San Bruno and H. Mulegé. One of them was related to the Octopus fishing that takes place in San Bruno and the other two were to present to the fishermen the progress of the Sustainable Fishing Project and points 1.1, 1.3 and 1.5 relating to Social Responsibility in accordance with the statutes of Fishery Progress.

As a result of the meetings, some fishermen in San Bruno were made aware of the need to implement management measures to catch octopus. Likewise, didactic material was created for the workshops and the first ones on Social Responsibility were presented to fishermen of H. Mulegé and San Bruno, in these events were present 10 people related to fishing and linked to the fishing improvement project.

It is hoped to continue the work of the Awareness and adoption of social responsibility.

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