Recent media revelations and scientific research have brought increased attention to human rights violations and the myriad social issues facing fisheries, but with a disproportionate focus on labor rights violations at sea and in industrial fishing operations. Resulting social standards and schemes to address and mitigate these human rights violations are focused on at-sea offshore operations and the harvesting stage. These are imperative for protecting the rights of fishers, but may preclude efforts to protect women who are engaged in harvesting on-shore or in post-harvest stages. This is exacerbated by the fact that the laser-focused protection of civil and political rights, often important for industrial scale fishing, has diminished attention and resources from protecting economic, social, and cultural (ESC) rights in small-scale fisheries. The protection of women's rights in seafood value chains urgently deserves more focus, as does the broader suite of human rights that are particularly relevant in small-scale fisheries. small-scale fisheries We end by providing concrete examples and best practices for protecting ESC and women’s rights in seafood value chains, in hopes of broader-scale recognition and adoption.

最近的媒体报道和科学研究已使人们更加关注侵犯人权行为和渔业面临的众多社会问题，但对海上和工业捕鱼活动中侵犯劳工权利的关注却不成比例。解决和减轻这些侵犯人权行为的最终社会标准和计划都集中在海上近海作业和捕捞阶段。这些对于保护渔民的权利是必不可少的，但可能会妨碍保护从事岸上或收获后捕捞工作的妇女的努力。激光重点保护的公民权利和政治权利通常对工业规模捕捞很重要，这一事实加剧了这一事实，这削弱了人们对保护小型渔业的经济，社会和文化（ESC）权利的关注和资源。当务之急是保护海鲜价值链中的妇女权利，尤其是在小型渔业中，更广泛的人权尤为重要。小型渔业最后，我们提供具体实例和最佳做法，以保护海产价值链中的ESC和妇女权利，以期得到更大范围的认可和采用。