Change and continuity
Exploring future trends for fisheries, our fellows asked questions like “what is likely to change and what will probably continue”, during the fourth week of the Six month training programme (December 8-14).
Topics covered during the week included environmental governance, ecosystem based fisheries, emerging technology, food research, blue food for sustainable livelihoods, gender and fisheries and fisheries management systems.
A special feature of the week was a meeting with the GRÓ Centre director general, Nína Björk Jónsdóttir, who discussed with the fellows the centre’s role in Iceland’s international development cooperation.
Midweek, fellows and staff set out for Reykjavík harbour, where contrasts between old and new were explored, through visits to the Maritime Museum, the Ocean Cluster innovation centre and Brim’s modern fish processing plant.
Apparently, although the fisheries sector in this country has changed quite a lot in the course of the last century or so, not least when it comes to fisheries management and value addition, some fundamentals remain unchanged.
Now as before, progress is to a large extent based on application of new technology and training and a shift forward often introduced by "agents of change", empowered by hard study, real-life experience and exposure to novelities abroad.
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