Resilient Fishing

Together to build resilience
in artisanal fisheries

Resilient Fishing seeks to have a positive impact on Peruvian fishing communities and thus build adaptation measures to climate change, making them less vulnerable.

Artisanal fishing

Facilitate new technologies to improve ancestral artisanal fishing gear.

Women’s empowerment

Promote the participation of women in new areas related to artisanal fishing.

New businesses

Promote the capacities of the fishing coves to enter into new economic activities.

Technological development

Expand oceanographic data collection capacity with new technological tools (gliders).

In the fishing coves of our country, a silent battle is being fought: to resist the impacts of climate change. Resilient Fishing explores this situation, the stories of its protagonists and the work developed to protect our fisheries.

Ubaldo, artisanal fishing and climate change

Ubaldo Tume is one of hundreds of artisanal fishermen who go out to sea in the cove of Cabo Blanco, Piura. Today, they all face a major problem in common: climate change and its impact on the marine ecosystem.

Women of the Sea

Fishing was traditionally a man’s trade, and the coves of Cabo Blanco, Órganos and El Ñuro were no strangers to this reality. For decades, women were in charge of the household while their husbands, brothers or sons went out to sea in search of sustenance.

Tourism in El Ñuro

Meet El Ñuro, a cove located in Los Órganos, Piura, which for decades has sustained its economy through fishing, but today is reinventing itself with new economic activities such as experiential tourism; and together with the coastal marine adaptation project promoted by Profonanpe, with funding from the Adaptation Fund, they invite you to learn about these new experiences.

OUR CHALLENGE

Resilient Fishing was born in two of the fishing communities most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change: the pilot area of Mancora, and the pilot area of Huacho.

The Peruvian sea has the most productive fisheries in the world,accounting for almost 10% of the world’s fish catch. This is due to the physical and chemical characteristics of its coastal outcrop.

Peru is estimated to be among the eight countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change on fisheries.

In the context of global warming, an increase of 2°C in maximum temperature and 20% in rainfall variability by 2050 would generate a loss of 20% of the country’s potential GDP in that year..

Resilient Fishing works in sustainable fishing, oyster farming, aquaponic farming, gastronomy, handicrafts, sustainable tourism, biofertilizer production and more.

The main objective is to reduce the vulnerability of fishing communities to the impacts of climate change and hydrobiological resources through a series of strategic actions.

Pesca Resiliente nace en dos de las comunidades pesqueras más vulnerables a los impactos del cambio climático: el área piloto de Máncora, y el área piloto de Huacho.

El mar peruano cuenta con las pesquerías más productivas en el mundo, obteniendo casi el 10% de la captura mundial de pescado. Esto se da, gracias a las características físicas y químicas de su afloramiento costero.

Se estima que el Perú se encuentra entre los ocho países más vulnerables a los impactos del cambio climático sobre la pesca.

En el contexto del calentamiento global, un aumento de 2°C en la temperatura máxima y 20% en la variabilidad de las precipitaciones al 2050, generaría una pérdida del 20% en el país respecto al PBI potencial en dicho año.

Pesca Resiliente trabaja en pesca sostenible, cultivo de ostras, cultivo acuapónico, gastronomía, artesanía, turismo sostenible, producción de biofertilizantes y más.

El gran objetivo, es reducir la vulnerabilidad de las comunidades pesqueras frente a los impactos del cambio climático y los recursos hidrobiológicos bajo una serie de acciones estratégicas.

OUR ACHIEVEMENTS

Resilient Fishing has allowed us to get closer to the communities through vulnerability assessments of the pilot areas, as well as ecological risk assessments to develop intervention measures to reduce the impact of climate change.

Three Gliders (autonomous underwater vehicles) have been acquired to help us with the recording of oceanographic variables and thus add this technology to the research and predictions of the impacts of climate change in fishing areas.

We were able to reinforce the gender approach in the pilot communities with the participation of women in activities related to ecotourism, business management, tourism guiding, bioproducts production, production and sale of handicrafts, aquaculture, and others.

We have developed productive activities with fishing communities in order to contribute to the formalization process of artisanal fishing associations in the pilot areas of Máncora and Huacho.

We are able to increase the income of artisanal fishermen thanks to traceability and the use of technology that allows an increase in the quality and value of the fish, bringing with it greater employment through the transformation and commercialization of the products.

We develop programs to educate and strengthen formalization issues, management of regulations and fishing, such as knowledge of minimum sizes, legally protected species, time limits, responsible fishing commitments and strengthening the regulatory framework of the “Regional Surveillance Committees for Artisanal Fishing.”