The Safety for Fishermen website is hosted by FAO. FAO has the overall responsibility for the content on the website, and each selected partner is responsible for his/her input to the website. 

  Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, FAO, Rome, Italy.

FAO Partners

The major contributors to this website or web community are all the Partners. To become a Partner of the web community and contribute with safety for fishermen information and material, you can send an email to ari.gudmundsson@fao.org.  A list of partners is presented below. 

Being a selected partner to the Safety for fishermen website, www.safety-for-fishermen.org, you have agreed to contribute relevant and useful material for the website. The information should be of high quality. All material published on the website is clearly attributed to each contributor for which he/she has full copyrights. Each partner will also be responsible for his/her contribution to the website. Input will be restricted to the selected partners. The website will be in this first phase developed in English, French and Spanish. More languages will be available in the future if there is a great demand for this.

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is the United Nations (UN) system’s regulatory agency for the maritime sector. Its global mandate is “safe, secure and efficient shipping on clean oceans”. IMO pursues that mandate by adopting international maritime rules and standards that are then implemented and enforced by Governments in the exercise of flag, port and coastal State jurisdiction.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is devoted to promoting social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights, pursuing its founding mission that labour peace is essential to prosperity. The ILO helps advance the creation of decent work and the economic and working conditions that give working people and business people a stake in lasting peace, prosperity and progress. Its tripartite structure provides a unique platform for promoting decent work for all women and men. Its main aims are to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment opportunities, enhance social protection and strengthen dialogue on work-related issues.  The ILO has a long-standing interested in conditions of work in the fishing, or fisheries, sector. In 2007, it adopted the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. 188) and the accompanying Recommendation No. 199.   The objective of Convention No. 188 is "is to ensure that fishers have decent conditions of work on board fishing vessels with regard to minimum requirements for work on board; conditions of service; accommodation and food; occupational safety and health protection; medical care and social security".  The ILO works closely with FAO and IMO to improve safety and health in the fishing sector.  The Secretariat of the ILO is the International Labour Office, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with field offices worldwide.

SPC is an international organisation that provides technical and policy advice and assistance, training and research services to its 22 Pacific Island members. SPC works in a wide range of sectors with the aim of achieving three development outcomes – sustainable economic development, sustainable natural resource management and development, and sustainable human and social development.

Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea,  New Caledonia. www.spc.int/fame

  Bay of Bengal Programme - Inter-Governmental Organisation, BOBP-IGO, Chennai, India.

  National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, NIOSH, Alaska, USA.

  Organizacion Latinoamericana de Desarrollo Pesquero, OLDEPESCA, Lima, Peru.

The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers, ICSF, Chennai, India.

SSPA Sweden AB is an independent consulting company providing services in the areas of ship design and maritime operations. Efficient, safe, comfortable and environmental-friendly waterborne transport systems and coastal development are in focus. SSPA's Maritime Operations group specifically focus on projects within the areas of maritime safety, port development and logistics, risk and safety, coastal development, technical simulations and design of decision support systems.
SSPA Sweden AB, Gothenburg, Sweden, www.sspa.se.

 General Directorate Merchant Marine is the competent body for the implementation of the policy on maritime affairs as per the terms specified in Law 27/1992, November the 24th of Ports of the State and Merchant Marine, with the following functions (not exhaustive): The control and management of maritime traffic, the register and control of maritime personnel and the minimum safe manning of the fleet, the prevention of pollution from ships and the fight against pollution in sea water, the prescription of minimum equipment in ships following international conventions, SOLAS and MARPOL and other national regulations thereof, the technical control and the inspection of Spanish ships and the Port State control inspections. 

Seafish was founded in 1981 by an Act of Parliament and supports all sectors of the seafood industry for a sustainable, profitable future.  It is the only pan-industry body offering services to all parts of the seafood industry, including catching and aquaculture, processors, importers, exporters and distributors of seafood and restaurants and retailers.

List of individual partners

Below is a list of individual partners to the website, most of them representatives from the seleced partner organisations.

Per Danielsson, FAO Consultant, safety for fishermen. Freelance consultant within sea safety, coastal management, fisheries livelihoods,and marine pollution.

Göteborg, Sweden
Phone: +46 (0730) 476007
Email: per.danielsson.gellerstam@gmail.com, per.danielsson@fao.org

Ari Gudmundsson, Fishery Industry Officer (Vessels), Fishing Operations and Technology Service (FIRO) of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of FAO. His activities include fishing vessel development and technology and safety at sea in the fisheries sector.

Rome, Italy.

Email: ari.gudmundsson@fao.org

New Zeeland.
Phone:
Email:

Website:   www.franciscoblaha.com 

Mattias Wengelin, Sea safety expert, Lund University. Mr. Wengelin is a specialist in the establishment, management, and maintenance of non-governmental SAR organizations in less developed countries. He is primarily engaged in the Swedish Sea Rescue Society´s "International SAR Centre" but is also a researcher and Lecturer at Lund University.

Helsingborg, Sweden.

Phone: +46 (031) 793189
Email: mattias.wengelin@ssrs.se
Skype: mattias_wengelin 

Miguel Núñez is Msc Naval Architect and Marine Engineer. He holds a Master in Philoshopy degree in "Oceanic and Naval Sciences and Technologies" by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and a Master of Shipping Degree at ICADE. He has ample experience as Paris MOU PSCO and fishing vessels inspection developing Concentrated Campaigns of Inspection and national regulations. He previously served as surveyor in ABS and BV  becoming a specialist in ships in Service and ship structures. He is now the Head of Technology and Technical Support Department at General Directorate Merchant Marine, Ministry of Development, Spain.

Phone: +34 91 5979247
Email: mnunez@fomento.es; nunez.miguel@gmail.com

Thomas Anmarkrud is a freelance boatbuilding consultant in FRP composites and wood. The capacity includes training in hands on skills in building and repair, both traditional, modern advanced, and theory in material knowledge and processes. Besides running his own repair yard in Norway, the work has been with FAO in the Maldives and the Bay of Bengal, and with Norad/FAO in Sri Lanka. He has written several books and brochures on boatbuilding and repair for FAO and the Norwegian government.

Bergen, Norway
Phone: +47 56146800
Mobile phone: +47 97110261
Mail: Thomas@osboat.no
Web: www.osboat.no