EQUITABLE RIGHTS OR PRIVATIZATION?

Hi, here's an interesting piece of news:

…//…A United Nations-backed committee today endorsed a set of far-reaching global guidelines to help governments protect the rights of people, especially the poor, to own or access land, forests and fisheries.
“Giving poor and vulnerable people secure and equitable rights to access land and other natural resources is a key condition in the fight against hunger and poverty,” said the Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), José Graziano da Silva.  …etc……//…

In spite of some haziness (own or access), when it comes to marine fishing, I'm afraid that these news wouldn't go too well with selling and buying access and rights to fish in the sea and other forms of privatization of fishing grounds.

THE WONDERS OF TECHNOLOGY: Robot to monitor conditions, fish in gulf

http://www.benyami.org/

May 4, 2012 - The newest ocean research tool in NewEngland looks like a surfboard, but it acts like a surveillance drone. An oceangoing robot known as a Wave Glider was launched Thursday for a six- to eightweek test run through the Gulf of Maine. Unmanned and remotely operated, the 7-foot robot, which uses waves for propulsion, will collect data on ocean conditions and identify the locations of certain tagged fish. The demonstration project is coordinated by the US Integrated Ocean Observing System. Read the full story from the AP. So, now fisheries scientists won't have to go to sea at all...