Greetings!
In the aftermath of the fires in Maui, we've been thinking a lot about the coastal community in Lahaina, the folks who rely on the ocean and on fishing. Our friends at Kuaʻāina Ulu 'Auamo are sharing great resources explaining how land-and-water-grabbing developers made these communities vulnerable to this disaster. Now, developers are moving to use this disaster to gain control of even more water, water that the community needs to thrive.
“This is a 2023 rendition of what’s been happening in Lahaina for centuries,” said Kapua’ala Sproat, director of the Native Hawaiian law center at the University of Hawaii.
"The company is “trying to use this incredibly difficult time to get a legal and financial advantage, especially over their water resources, when that’s something they were not able to accomplish legally before the fire,” said Sproat, of the Native Hawaiian law center.
Read the full article at the link below, follow along with resources Kua is sharing, and support the people of Lahaina however you can.
In solidarity,
Meg Stratton
Coordination Wizard
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Take Action:
Counter-APEC Protest Calls Attention to Corporate-Controlled Food Systems, Connecting Land And Sea
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"Protesters are drawing connections between land and sea. For instance, they point to Cargill, one of APEC’s sponsors, a global food conglomerate and dominant player in land-based agriculture that has increasingly entered the fishing industry by taking over fish feeds used for aquaculture.
“Cargill and other proponents of industrial aquaculture make greenwashed claims about the sustainability of large-scale fish farming. What they don’t tell you is how much they benefit from feeding farmed fish with their own GE soy,” said Estefanía Narvaèz, an organizer with the Block Corporate Salmon campaign, which calls for a global boycott of genetically engineered Salmon produced by a biotech company called AquaBounty.
“Monoculture corn and soy are destroying Indigenous land around the world. This system takes protein from arable land that could directly feed people and turns it into feed for farmed animals,” Narvaèz added. “Cargill is the largest privately held corporation in the United States in terms of revenue. Because they are a main feed supplier, they stand to gain financially from expansion of caged animals anywhere in the world.”
Organizers called on Washington Senator Cantwell to block the AQUAA Act, legislation recently introduced in Congress that seeks to expand industrial aquaculture in U.S. federal waters. The AQUAA Act is backed by a leading finfish aquaculture lobbying group, Stronger America Through Seafood, that Cargill is a member of.
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New Aquaculture Report: What do we stand for? |
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In 2020, NAMA and collaborators helped create the Food Print Report on Farmed Seafood in 2020, which focused mostly on the negative aspects of aquaculture. We knew from there that we needed a more values-aligned version that expressed "what we stood for" rather than what we stood against.
The new hot-off-the press Aquaculture Values Report is meant to strengthen our collective power and ability to align around various aquaculture projects. Plus build more bridges between wild-capture fishing and aquaculture communities.
Feel free to link, reference & share!
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NAMA at the National Family Farm Coalition Annual Gathering |
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NAMA board member Nicola Williams represented NAMA at the annual gathering of the National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC). Members representing 18 organizations gathered in Des Moines, Iowa. Carl Wassilie and Leonardo Wassilie from Salmonberry Tribal Associates attended from Washington and Alaska representing the Community Alliance for Global Justice.
As a member of NFFC, NAMA joins with and fishermen from across the country to oppose corporate domination of the food system, and of the land, water, and infrastructure that communities rely on to be healthy and resilient.
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Corporate Domination of Land & Sea |
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Global Alliance for the Future of Food:
Food Systems Don't Stop at the Water: The Need to Focus on Aquatic Foods
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National Family Farm Coalition:
New Legislation Will Safeguard Farmland from Further Corporate Land Grabs
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Hakai Magazine:
Boom and Bust, All at Once: The Fraught Modern History of Fish Meal
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The Seattle Times: Ban Irresponsible Aquaculture in WA Waters and Beyond |
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Civil Eats: NOAA is Rolling Out a Plan to Radically Expand Offshore Aquaculture: Not Everyone is On Board |
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Surf & Turf: Andrea Tomlinson
Learn about Andrea's work with the New England Young Fisherman's Alliance.
Andrea and Caroline talk about the greying of the fleet, the "trade drain" it's causing, and how catch shares are fueling the problems facing young people who want to enter the fishing industry.
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Surf & Turf: Dr. Tony Sutton
Dr. Tony Sutton is an Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and Food Systems at the University of Maine studying Wabanaki Food Ways. He and his family are his family are Passamaquoddy.
Tony discusses the colonization and privatization of the food system, weaving together historical and contemporary perspectives on policy, community needs, and exploring a more dynamic understanding of sustenance.
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New Documentary: Fresh Catch |
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Skipper Otto is featured in this new documentary about small-scale sustainable fishers in British Columba.
If you're in Canada, you can watch it now on CBC Gem
While we're waiting to watch the documentary here in the US, check out this interview with film director Mackenzie Stannard and Sonia Strobel, the co-founder and CEO of Skipper Otto.
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Social media to add to your feed! |
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KUA is an innovative, community-based initiative for protecting, restoring and caring for Hawaiʻi. Our unique native species, ecosystems and island way of life in Hawaiʻi are deeply interconnected, and are at the heart of what makes these islands “home.”
Follow Kua to learn more about their work to designate Community Based Subsistence Fishing Areas & follow the context they're sharing about the human made disaster in Maui.
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Pacific Northwest People Over Profit
Learn more about Block Corporate Salmon's partner PNW-POP and the work they're doing to push back against APEC
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Black Star Farmers
Partners in Block Corporate Salmon's Anti-APEC efforts,
Black Star Farmers (BSF) is a coalition of people with diverse identities working towards the radical reclamation of land and food sovereignty for all beings. We achieve this through land stewardship, mutual aid, education, and direct action.
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Local Catch Network
Find Your Seafood Week
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Join us in amplifying the importance of community-based seafood harvesters during the third annual #FindYourSeafoodWeek!
#FYSW is a social media campaign that aims to increase the visibility of domestic seafood harvesters and businesses that participate in direct marketing by raising awareness of the LCN Seafood Finder.
The Local Catch Network has tools that make it easy for you to participate in #FYSW from September 10th -16th. Access the #FYSW toolkit with social media graphic templates, a planning calendar, sample posts, and more.
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NAMA is a fishermen-led organization building a broad movement toward healthy fisheries, and fishing communities.
We build deep, and trusting relationships with community based fisherman, crew, fishworkers, and allies to create effective policy, and market strategies.
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