Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum | Pakistan

Climate activist Fatima Majeed has been appointed as the chairperson of the Sindh Fisheries Department, becoming the first woman from the fishing community to become so, it emerged on Friday. Majeed is an activist, social worker and senior vice-chairperson of the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF). The PFF, a democratic organisation with over 100,000 memberships across the country, having a minimum 35 per cent women ratio, today is one of the strongest social movements in Pakistan. It has, over the years, proven itself as a nursery for producing leaders in the fishing and peasant communities of Pakistan. Its struggle targets policy issues related to fishing rights, fish marketing and fish conservation, rehabilitation of the Indus Delta, sustainable fisheries policy, abolition of the contract system over inland waters, historical fishing rights on entire water bodies for indigenous fisherfolk, discouraging industrial fishing by deep sea trawlers and marine pollution, and detention of fishermen. In a post on X tod...