2025 Online Course:
Preparatory Materials - Module 3

Each lecture requires participants to undertake advance preparation in terms of reading one or two recommended papers or articles, watching a video and/or reflecting on questions. Materials for Module 3 (Fisheries, Aquaculture and Food Security) are available below. See also for Module 1 (Law of the Sea and Ocean Governance) and Module 2 (Ocean Threats and Solutions), with Module 4 (Human Security and the Ocean) to be rolled out nearer the time.

Session 9: Monday 12th May

Session 10: Thursday 15th May

Session 11: Tuesday 20th May

OPTIONAL EXTRAS

1. Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) and TBTI Global for lots of free publications and videos on small-scale fisheries, blue justice etc.

2. Community Conservation Research Network resources including recent free book on Communities, Conservation and Livelihoods and a film on Sustainable Futures - Communities in Action.

3. Blue Justice Glossary - Addressing Epistemic Blue Injustice in Small-Scale Fisheries available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese.

4. WorldFish, 2020 Securing a just space for small-scale fisheries in the blue economy (video: 1.5 mins)

5. Peter Bradshaw, Guardian article (7th May 2025), Ocean with David Attenborough review – a passionate case against the ruination of the seas including the film trailer.

6. The Fish We Turn to Dust (video: 14 mins), Episode 6 of Dispatches from the Outlaw Ocean - hard-hitting, investigative documentaries from award-winning journalist Ian Urbina. (Warning: some episodes contain disturbing imagery.)

7. Financial Times, A better way to farm fish | FT Food Revolution, Oct. 2023 (video: c. 12 mins)