bana kailangan jud ang tubig Sir. Kinahanglan jud sir para maka
sustain sa among panginabuhi pud sir.
(Yes sir… water has huge help with fishermen sir. Really big. Why? We
need water everyday sir. And if you’re a fisherfolk for example like my
husband, water is really needed. Really need to sustain our livelihood”.)
Therefore, particularly among women fisherfolks, they felt happy when they
got more fishes to catch for, they can sustain they their daily lives.
Water is a source of Life as a
Women Fisher folk
In a classic book on the Spanish Galician fisheries, dating from the last
quarter of the nineteenth century, Joaquín Díaz de Rábago (1885) called attention
to the importance of the work of women in the fisheries within the region,
specifically in post-harvest-related work. Thus, today, evidence shows that women
do indeed participate in fisheries all around the globe. And, even if the participation
of women in fisheries may be as old as the very act of fishing, its recognition has
taken centuries of work to accomplish, and has been far from linear (Britton, 2012).
Thus, women fisher folks like where they belong now they participate in some
fishery works, who worked to raise the voice of fisherwomen and empower women
from fishing communities at the beginning of the 1990s and until now (Neis, 2000).
Thus, aquamarine, crystal clear water as far as the eye can see. White sand
beaches littered with nothing more than perfectly formed cowrie shells and the
occasional palm tree casting just enough shadow to provide a retreat from the sun. It
is time, Hadiwinata underscored in his written comments, while joining his voice to
the chorus of millions of fishermen and fisherwomen around the world, to enact a
global sanction against corporations that damage the environment and pollute the
ocean, while recognizing and supporting the knowledge and practices of fisher folk