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Industrial Shrimp Action Network
Acronym: ISA Net
Keywords: | Development | Environment | All |
Source of Information: Survey of Civil Society Networks 2001
A. Objectives
| Mission
Statement: We are a global
network of organizations and individuals, representing community,
environmental, and scientific concerns.
We are opposed to the expansion of destructive industrial shrimp
farming with such consequences as impoverishment
and displacement of local communities, degradation of
mangrove forests and other coastal and inland ecosystems, loss of
agricultural land, pollution, and the loss of cultural and biological
diversity. We have joined together to recognize, support, and empower
communities threatened by shrimp farming to enable them to control the use
and management of coastal resources to meet their food, livelihood, cultural,
and other basic needs; to educate consumers about the social, economic,
and environmental costs of shrimp production so that they can make
informed decisions about purchasing and eating shrimp; to resist
destructive industrial shrimp production practices and policies and
encourage the adoption of ecologically responsible and socially equitable
alternatives by industry, local communities, national governments, and
international institutions; and to identify and encourage better coastal
resource management and support the restoration of ecosystems degraded by
industrial shrimp farming. |
B. Contact Information
| Coordinator | Isabel de la Torre |
| Title | International Coordinator |
| Telephone | (253) 5395272 |
| Fax | (253) 5395054 |
| isanet@shrimpaction.org
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| Website | http://www.shrimpaction.org |
| Mailing Address | 14420 Duryea Lane, Tacoma, WA 98444 USA |
C. General Information
| Founding year | 1997 |
| Legal Status | Project sponsorship by Earth Island |
| Types of actions | Meetings,
policy advocacy with specific government agencies letter writing, action
alerts public education, etc. |
D. Programs
| Name | Goal | Approximate budget ($US) |
| Specific Country Campaigns | Stop unsustainable expansion of shrimp farming | 100,000 |
| Public education | Make
public aware of socio-economic and environmental impacts of shrimp farming |
150,000 |
| Research on shrimp finance | Identification
of financing of shrimp aquaculture by multilateral development banks |
75,000 |
| Coastal tenure workshops | Identify tenurial instruments that local communities can use in attaining access, use, or ownership of coastal resources | 50,000 |
E. Geographical Reach
| Countries in which network participates actively |
Honduras, Ecuador, Mexico, United States, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Tanzania, Kenya, United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Austria |
F. Members
The network is composed primarily by: X Organizations _ Individuals
| Principal Organizations | Central Interest | Country of origin |
| Natural Resources Defense Council | multilateral development bank | USA |
| Environment Defense | sustainable aquaculture | USA |
| Coddeffagolf | local resource use and stopping of expansion of shrimp farming | Honduras |
| Fundecol |
local resource use and stopping of expansion of shrimp farming | Ecuador |
| Nijera Kori | local resource use and stopping of expansion of shrimp farming | Bangladesh |
G. Resources
| Approximate
annual budget of the network
(in $US) |
| Year 2000 | Year 1995 | Year 1990 |
| 200,000 |
| Sources of funding: | International Foundations, Private National Sources |
H. Network Infrastructure
| Number of paid employees in Central Office(s)/ Secretariat(s) of Network | 2 |
| Number of paid employees elsewhere in the network | 4 |
| Does the network have a physical site of its own? | YES |
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