What is World Fish Migration Day?

World Fish Migration Day is a one-day global celebration to create awareness of open rivers and migratory fish. This international day of events is coordinated by the World Fish Migration Foundation. On World Fish Migration Day, organizations from around the world coordinate their own event around the common theme of: CONNECTING FISH, RIVERS AND PEOPLE.

What is a Migratory Fish?

Migratory fishes are fishes that swim short or long distances daily, yearly or annually, as a way to complete their life cycle, feed and/or make love!

Creating awareness is an essential first step to make real change. The main goal of World Fish Migration Day is to improve the public's understanding of the importance of migratory fish and how we can reduce our impact on them. The next step is to enable citizens on the world to take action on these topics. Ultimately, the aim is to create sustainable commitments from NGOs, governments and industry on safeguarding free rivers and restoring swimways or migratory fish.

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As part of the new FAO series “Blue Innovators”, two podcasts have just been released.

Blue innovators across the globe are coming up with novel ways to protect the ocean, harness its resources sustainably, and support the communities that depend on the ocean for food and for their livelihoods.

Blue innovators: Plastic made from fish
Meet Lucy Hughes, the inventor a bioplastic made from fish waste. The graduate student's innovation won the 2019 James Dyson Award.
Click to listen.
Producer: Charlotta Lomas

Croissance bleue & innovation: L'intelligence artificielle pour lutter contre la pêche illégale
Badr Idrissi est fondateur d'Atlan Space, une start-up qui développe de l’intelligence artificielle pour lutter contre le phénomène, souvent associé à d’autres activités illégales comme le trafic de drogue ou d’armes, le trafic humain ou encore l’esclavage.
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Producer: Anais Hotin