The undue quarrel

Environmentalists and fishermen rarely agree on anything – despite that, for logical reasons, they should stand shoulder-to-shoulder in a common cause for maintaining ‘sustainable’ utilisation of fishery resources.

Small-scale fisheries generally make broader direct and indirect contributions to food security, says HLPE. Credit: Biswarup Ganguly/CC-BY-SA-3.0

Environmentalists and fishermen rarely agree on anything – despite that, for logical reasons, they should stand shoulder-to-shoulder in a common cause for maintaining ‘sustainable’ utilisation of fishery resources.