Our vision of success is a world where the governance of marine fisheries addresses the interconnected root causes of labor and harvesting violations, driving systemic changes in the global seafood sector, fully engaging industry, workers, government, and civil society.
About Us
The Fisheries Governance Project (FGP) is a funder-practitioner collaboration working to advance solutions that focus on the interconnected governance issues related to IUU fishing and labor rights in marine fisheries.
Our Work Is Focused on
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Identifying opportunities and challenges for advancing and accelerating solutions to the interconnected governance issues related to labor and harvesting issues in marine fisheries to
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Building bridges between the broad spectrum of entities working on IUU fishing and labor rights issues to foster alignment across scales and geographies.
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Filling gaps in the field that will eventually ladder up to global impact.
Our Story
In 2020, a small group of funders and NGOs recognized the need to break down silos between IUU fishing and labor rights experts working in the seafood sector. We launched FGP to build a shared understanding of the intersection between the two issues and explore ways to build alignment around effective solutions.
Over the next few years, FGP explored ways to address the root causes of labor and harvesting violations by focusing on three contributing factors: international treaties, corporate duties, and worker empowerment. We spent time trying to understand and begin to fill some of the foundational gaps that existed for each contributing factor.
During that time, the field evolved in many ways due to massive advancements in technology, import control rules, catch documentation, and other tools and strategies. FGP’s work evolved as well.
The interconnected root causes of labor and harvesting violations have not changed. FGP is continuing to advance solutions that focus on the interconnected governance issues related to IUU fishing and labor rights in marine fisheries, driving systemic changes in the global seafood sector, including industry, workers, government, civil society actors, and other stakeholders.
FISHERIES GOVERNANCE PROJECT is part of the Multiplier community of projects. Multiplier is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit accelerator and backbone organization that amplifies bold solutions to the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges. Multiplier serves as a nonprofit home and launchpad for mission-driven initiatives that are working to build a healthy, sustainable, resilient, and equitable world.