In 2011, fisheries experts, conservation NGOs, World Bank representatives and major philanthropies came together to discuss what it would take to achieve large-scale restoration of small-scale fisheries. Success, the group concluded, would require taking a whole-systems approach—addressing challenges using several levers for change at once and widening the focus to include economic and social benefits as well as environmental improvements. Based on this emerging consensus, they enlisted the seafood industry, the finance sector, and other key actors to collectively identify systemic failures in real-world fisheries and start to design solutions. Out of these discussions came the idea of a global fisheries lab that would pool capacities and expertise and test promising tools and strategies in specific fisheries.
In February 2012 at the Economist Ocean Summit meeting in Singapore, former World Bank President Robert Zoellick laid down a specific challenge: the global community had the resources and knowledge to restore 50 percent of the world’s fisheries within 10 years if all the players worked together. 50in10 was born when several NGOs and foundations took up Zoellick’s challenge at a workshop in Vancouver in November 2012. They conceived a network organization that would develop and share knowledge and replicate the most effective tools and approaches worldwide.
Active from 2013 to 2016, 50in10 developed the following tools and resources to aid efforts to restoring small-scale fisheries.
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