BLUE JUSTICE WEBINAR 

May, 22, 2025, Online

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With our guest Anthony Charles, School of the environement & Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s Université, Halifax, Canada :

Equitable Access for Small-Scale Fisheries: A Sustainable Fishery Systems Approach

Abstract : The well-being of small-scale fishers depends on having equitable access to a range of essential ingredients – to natural resources and aquatic space, certainly, but also to social protection, financing, technology, information, markets and legal services. This presentation explores issues relating to such access, based on an underlying sustainable fishery systems approach, and reflecting work underway with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, to support sustainable livelihoods within small-scale fisheries.

Bio : Dr. Anthony (Tony) Charles is Director of the School of the Environment at Saint Mary’s University, where he is also a professor in Environmental Science and the Sobey School of Business. His work focuses on sustainability and well-being for fisheries, oceans and coasts, together with the humans and communities relying on them. He specializes in small-scale fisheries, working with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, and leading the Community Conservation Research Network and the Small-Scale Fisheries Stewardship Project. His current work focuses on issues of equitable access for small-scale fishers. He has received a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation and a Gulf of Maine Visionary Award, both recognizing his work with fishers and Indigenous Peoples. He has authored several books, most recently a new edition of “Sustainable Fishery Systems” – as well as “Governing the Coastal Commons” and “Communities, Conservation and Livelihoods”.