Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF)

The Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) is a civil society organization created in May of 1998. The PFF aims to protect the socioeconomic and political rights of indigenous fisherfolk communities in Pakistan by bringing sustainability in the usage of water resources. It vows to bring a change in socio-economic conditions of these communities by ensuring the restoration of their historical ownership right in and on the water resources. The PFF targets a wide array of issues which are directly or indirectly associated with about 4 million fishers in Pakistan. In this , The PFF focuses on creating a sustainable fisheries policy, a ban on deep sea trawlers, the stop to the depletion of natural resources in the sea, the protection of resources from destructive nets, the release and rehabilitation of detained fishers in Pakistani and Indian jails, the abolition of contract system on the inland water bodies, the creation of a license system on the inland water bodies, the restoration of Indus...