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World days, 21 Nov 2026

World Fisheries Day

A day for the world's fishing communities and the fish stocks they depend on, first marked in New Delhi in 1997.

World Fisheries Day began on 21 November 1997, when fishworker groups from around the world met in New Delhi and formed the World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers. They called for sustainable fishing and for the rights of small-scale fishers, who land a large share of the fish eaten in poor countries. The day is now marked by fishing communities in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Africa and Latin America with rallies, beach clean-ups and talks on overfishing, trawling near the shore and the loss of mangroves and estuaries where many fish breed.

Still to be written: Ilish, Indian oil sardine, Indian mackerel, Skipjack tuna.

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