#TraditionalFishing

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2025-12-22
2025-12-21

A new dawn rises in the #Arctic: the #Inuit plan to reclaim their sea

By Ossie Michelin in Rigolet, #Nunatsiavut , Sun 27 Aug 2023

Excerpt: "While there are other Inuit-led marine conservation programs in Canada, this will be the first to bear the title of #InuitProtectedArea. This #ConservationZone, which is now the subject of a feasibility study, would span nearly 15,000 sq km (5,800 sq miles) of the #LabradorSea bordering the #TorngatMountains national park.

"Built on Inuit values and culture, this type of conservation area would allow Indigenous people to continue traditional practices of hunting and fishing.
That was not always the case. Past conservation policies saw Inuit at best only consulted and at worst completely ignored. Many Inuit hunters and fishers faced fines, had their equipment confiscated and their catches from hunting and fishing taken.

"Despite being granted the power to self-govern in 2005 (after 30 years of negotiations with the Canadian government), Nunatsiavut still lacked the final say over conservation in its waters. Final decisions defaulted to federal or provincial ministers.

"Now, at last, Nunatsiavut can jointly create and co-manage the protected area, based on Inuit priorities, as an equal authority. This will allow Inuit to practise #TraditionalHunting and #fishing in the area, while protecting the waters from industry and development.

" 'Just because we’re small doesn’t mean we can’t do something,' says #JamesGoudie, deputy minister of lands and natural resources in the Nunatsiavut government. 'We can show the world that a small region can protect a massive amount of #BioDiversity.'

"The Inuit Protected Area would only cover about a third of Nunatsiavut’s nearly 50,000 sq km of offshore waters, but the region is home to important populations of fish such as #salmon and #ArcticChar, the breeding grounds for many #MigratoryBirds, and the habitat of Arctic marine mammals including #PolarBears, #BelugaWhales and #Seals.

"Establishing a protected area is also a pre-emptive strike against #ResourceExploitation. Significant #NaturalGas deposits have been found offshore along the #LabradorShelf, but it has remained largely unexplored because of the ice. As the climate warms, however, the region is becoming more accessible – the Inuit Protected Area would prevent such resource exploration."

Read more:
theguardian.com/environment/20

Archived version:
archive.ph/LfYRZ

#SolarPunkSunday #ProtectingTheArctic #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #TraditionalKnowledge #FirstNations #InuitValues #TraditionalFishing #AnimalProducts #Conservation #Nature

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2025-12-03

🐟🔥 Foreign Traveler Tries Sri Lankan Ritipanna Fishing!

schneckenhauszofe@pixelfed.de
2025-10-14
Der Trabucco San Lorenzo ist ein traditionelles Fischfanggerät, das an der apulischen Küste seit Jahrhunderten verwendet wird. Es besteht aus Holz und langen Fangarmen, die ins Meer reichen.
09.10.2025, #Italy #Puglia #Gargano #TraditionalFishing #trabucco #CulturalHeritage [1]
2025-07-12

The Sherkin Island Fishing Boat

A fishing boat with the registration code C353P sits moored in the low-tide mud in Sherkin Island. It sits opposite the island library and has been a feature of the island for as long as I remember. However, it was missing during a visit in 2017, and this gallery of Sherkin Island photos shows an empty space where the boat should be! A blog post here from 2016 shows the boat back in place, so maybe someone took the boat out during my visit in 2017?

Now I would like to know more about this boat. Who owns it? Does anyone take it out for a spin any more?

You’ll also find photos of this boat elsewhere, including this article about a Ukrainian family who settled on the island. It’s also featured in a painting created in 2012, but it’s sitting on a dock somewhere, possibly local.

Apertureƒ/8CameraILCE-7RM5Focal length24mmISO100Shutter speed1/250s

#2025 #Boat #coastalLandscape #Cork #CorkCoast #fishingBoat #Ireland #IrishCoastline #lowTide #maritimeHeritage #mudflats #Photo #Photography #seaweed #SherkinIsland #SonyA7RV #tidalFlats #traditionalFishing

A small red and white fishing boat with registration number C353P moored on muddy tidal flats at low tide, surrounded by seaweed-covered rocks and secured with rope lines, with rolling green hills and clear blue sky in the background.

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