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The fisheries sector faces a growing crisis. Increasing population pressures, growing demand for fish and failures of governance are leading to unsustainable levels of exploitation of living aquatic resources and destruction of aquatic ecosystems. In many developing countries the sustainable benefits are in decline, perpetuating a spiral into poverty for many small-scale fishers and communities dependent on fishing.
World Bank has established a new Global Program on Fisheries (PROFISH) in association with key donors and stakeholders to meet the challenge of this growing crisis. PROFISH is a programming and funding partnership between key fishery sector donors, international financial institutions, developing countries, stakeholder organizations, and international agencies. PROFISH currently receives financial and in-kind support from Iceland, France, Norway and Finland, Japan, FAO and the World Bank, and the growing partnership includes IUCN and WorldFish Center, organizers of the NEPAD Fish for All Summit(Summit Declaration/ Action Plan) (PDFs, 16 KB/ 133 KB). See the address delivered by Warren Evans, Director of Environment, The World Bank, at the NEPAD Fish for All Summit in Abuja, Nigeria. (English, French) (PDFs 15 KB/15 KB)
The overall objective of PROFISH is to improve sustainable livelihoods in the fisheries sector and to make concrete progress towards meeting the WSSD's goals in fisheries.
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