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  • Illegal fishing accounts for about 20 percent of the world's catch, costing up to $23.5 billion a year.

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  • An estimated 8 million tons of plastic waste enters the ocean annually from land-based sources.

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  • The ocean covers 71% of the Earth's surface, but has received less than 1% of all philanthropic funding since 2009.

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"The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat."   — Jacque Yves Cousteau

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Strengthening Governance of Small-Scale Fisheries: An Initial Assessment of the Theory and Practice
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Strengthening Governance of Small-Scale Fisheries: An Initial Assessment of the Theory and Practice

Often hidden in national statistics, small-scale fisheries have been poorly measured at a global level, and in thepast often ignored in states' policy-making. Yet estimates suggest their aggregate global contribution tonutrition, food security and poverty eradication is massive. The most recent estimates available suggest thatsmall-scale fisheries account for over 90 percent of the world's commercial fishers, processors and otherpersons employed along the value chain, equivalent to over 108 million people. Roughly half areemployed in the ocean and the other half in inland fisheries—making small-scale fisheries far and awaythe ocean's largest…

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