READY MED FISH

READY MED FISH
Requalification of Employment
And Diversification for Youth in
the Mediterranean
ENPI CBC MED
Cross-Border Cooperation in the Mediterranean
PR.I.ME project – Final conference and Capitalization event
Rome, December 11 2015
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Three keywords for READY MED FISH
The acronym
Requalification of Employment and Diversification for Youth in the Mediterranean
Fisheries sector
Requalification
Diversification
Mediterranean
Support and train
young operators in
order to renew the
appeal of the sector
and strengthen the
sources of income
Work for the
development of
diversification
providing support both
on the technical and
normative aspects
Why READY Med Fish?
A generalized social and economic crisis involving small-scale
fisheries is spreading throughoutthe Mediterranean sea basin
Loss of income at
household level
Loss of interest in investing in
the sector
No generational
turnover
Loss of social value
within coastal
communities
Increase of unsustainable
practices
Loss of cultural heritage
Need to directly support the operators and review
policies and strategies at Mediterranean level
Our proposal: from fisherman to
entrepreneur
Ittiturism
o
…to the multi-functional enterprise
Fishing
Tourism
Direct
Sale
Culture &
Education
Environmental
service
From the traditional smallscale fisheries activity…
Aquaculture
What does multi-functionality mean?
Consider the potentiality of the
territory
Enhance the socioeconomic
condition of the
household and of
the whole
community
Multi-functionality refers to the
capacity of fishermen to provide useful
services other than the one strictly
related to primary production.
Invest in know-how, requilify and
diversify the primary production
with a new integrative activity
Diversifing should never mean
abandoning fisheries
Identify new
economic
activities to
undertake
How do we support the path towards
diversification?
2. TRAINING for
young operators,
fisheries
associations and
public
administrations
1. Geographic
and economic
identification of
local needs and
constraints
3. Review of the
Mediterranean,
national and
local normative
on fisheries and
diversification
4. Establishment
of a network of
Info and
Assistance desks,
and a Virtual
Platform
In order to overcome all the economic, social, technical and normative
constraints that are currently preventing a full development and spread of the
concept of multi-functionality READY MED FISH has worked on 4 main pillars
READY MED FISH OBJECTIVES
Identification
Normative
Training
Networking
Specific Objectives
•
Strengthen the professionalization of young operators of the small-scale fisheries sector
• Improve normative capacities of Public Administrations on diversification
• Increase the legal and technical knowledge of Fisheries Associations
• Foster the review and reform of the normative framework at local, and national level
• Promote the private entrepreneurship and increase potential revenues
Project strategy and results
1. Identification
Identification of local needs and territorial
peculiarities in terms of diversification
Step 2: Definition of the
professional profiles according to
target areas needs (youths involved
in this phase).
Step 3: Adapting professional
profiles to the geographic,
economic and social context.
Establishment of the
GEOGRAPHIC ACTION GROUPS
(GAGs)
Project strategy and results
2. Training
Class and on the job training aimed at three main target groups to enhance
the local capacities on multi-functionality and diversification
Public
Administrations
20 represenatives
trained
• Training on the normative aspects related to management
and regulation of diversification activities.
• In Apulia.
Fisheries
Associations
20 representatives
trained
• Training focused both on normative and techincal aspects concerning
diversification. The main aim was to allow an effective spread of such
knowledge in the target areas and among coastal communities, boosting the
development of an entrepreneurial approach among young fishermen.
• In Apulia
Young fishermen
80 operators trained (20
per country - on the job
training, best practices,
success stories)
Project strategy and results
3. Normative
Review of the national legislative frameworks and elaboration
of normative proposals at local, regional and national level.
4. Networking
- Promotion of the diversification path as a successful integrative activity
through the institution of a network of Info and Assistance Desks (IADs)
active in the PAs of the countries involved in the project, to give support to
fisheries operators after the conclusion of the project. (Technical,
normative, administrative and business support, for starting up new
activities).
- Creation of a virtual platform to promote diversification, support start-ups
and connect all the active IADs online.
Where and with whom we worked
Ministry of Agriculture –
General Direction of
Fisheries and Aquaculture
Lega Pesca
Regione Puglia –
Area politiche per lo
sviluppo rurale,
Servizio Caccia e
Pesca
CIHEAM –
Mediterranean
Agronomic
Institute of Bari
Fisheries Development
Group – Ajim Djerba
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EGYPT
General Authority for Fish
Resource Development
Egyptian Union of
Fishermen
Cooperatives
LEBANON
Ministry of Agriculture – Rural
Development and Natural
Resources Directorate
TUNISIA
Cooperative Association
of Fishery in Sahil
Khaizarane
THANK YOU!
Contacts:
Francesca Ottolenghi – Project Coordinator [email protected]
Federico Zacchia – Secretary Officer [email protected]
Enrico Azzone – Financial Manager [email protected]
Maria Rosaria Pezzuto – Communication Manager [email protected]
Valentina Testa – International Cooperation Office [email protected]