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Anguilla’s fishers
share knowledge
about climate change
By Jewel Fraser
PORT-OF-SPAIN, March 28, 2019
(IPS) — Fishers in Anguilla saw posted
on Youtube this week a video they helped
produce that depicts the impacts of climate
change on their industry. Titled
“Anguilla’s Fishing Dilemma,” the fourand
a-half minute video highlights some
of the main challenges Anguilla’s 92
licensed fishers face in earning a living.
Kenyetta Alord, one of the fishers who
worked on the video, told IPS that the
video was important to “demonstrate to
people that you definitely need help.” He
and several other fishers produced the
video as part of a workshop sponsored
by the UK’s Darwin Plus project for
climate change adaptation in fisheries.
Darwin Plus helps Britain’s overseas territories,
including those in the Eastern
Caribbean such as Anguilla, by funding
projects in the areas of conservation and
environmental sustainability.
The workshop, which ran in late
December, was conducted by the Trinidad
based Caribbean Natural Resources
Institute (CANARI) and Anguilla’s
Department of Fisheries and Marine
Resources. “It was part of a campaign of
mobilising the knowledge fishers have to
get them and the agencies that support
them to start taking action on climate
change,” said Dr. Ainka Granderson,
senior technical officer and manager
of CANARI’s Climate Change and Risk
Reduction Programme.
Twenty-five participants attended the
workshop, including delegates from the
Anguilla National Trust, dive operators,
and government agencies that work in
fisheries and marine resource management,
Granderson said.
“The idea is that there is a lot of local
knowledge about the impacts of climate
change that have not been tapped
into by the authorities,” she said. “So
the workshop was to get participants
thinking about how they can share their
knowledge and raise awareness about
these specific aspects.”
Granderson said fishers often may
not have “a clear voice” when it comes
to decision making with regard to the
fishing industry. The workshop on communications
using participatory videos
was designed to help them “say what
are their priority needs and what are the
actions they would like to see to build
their resilience.”
The fishing industry is important
for Anguilla’s economy, said Director of
Anguilla’s Department of Fisheries and
Marine Resources Kafi Gumbs. She told
IPS via e-mail that the fishing industry
is “the second highest revenue generator”
for Anguilla. “Besides revenue,
it forms an important part of the locals’
diet and culture.”
She said authorities in Anguilla were
concerned that the impacts of climate
change could lead to the collapse of the
fishing industry and related ecosystem
services. In addition, her department
was concerned about possible migration
“and/or no or delayed migration” of
some pelagics; sea level rise; loss of calcium
carbonate plants and animals such
as conch and lobster, the latter being
Anguilla’s main fisheries export; as well
as damage to reefs and water inundation,
since “a lot of the hospitality businesses
which the local fishers depend on
are along the coast.”
The fishers also feel the impacts of
climate change in the form of rougher
seas, said Granderson, that seriously
reduce the number of days they are able
to fish. “Snow storms in the U.S. produce
groundswells, making very rough
sea conditions. Every two weeks there
are days when they cannot go out. It is
an ongoing issue.”
Alord confirmed that rough seas pose
a major challenge for local fishers. “Now
you have to wait at least a month or two
before you go out. Before, there were
calm days in every month,” he said. But
“now we have to wait two months to go
out, so we are earning a lot less.”
And because of the increasing fishing
effort required, due in part to the effects
of climate change, fishers also have to
go further out to sea, greatly increasing
their fuel costs. “Fuel is incredibly
expensive on these small islands, which
rely on fossil fuel. They spend a lot of
money,” Granderson told IPS.
Alord told IPS that his boat, which
carries a crew of three, routinely spends
hundreds of dollars on fishing trips in
one week.
He said the training in video production
was valuable for helping the fishers
to showcase their concerns. It helped
them appreciate the importance of identifying
a target audience for their video,
as well as helped them in crafting their
message in the most effective way.
Alord said, “We had to show why we
need these things in place. We have to
present the videos in the most graphic
way where we definitely have to make
them understand what we are saying.”
Granderson said the workshop training
was successful partly because most
of the fishers in Anguilla are young.”
Because of that they were very accustomed
to using Youtube. There was
already a fisher who has his own Youtube
channel that everybody follows, so they
were tech savvy and used to using video,”
Granderson said.
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