Fish Safe

In Bangladesh, over 1,350 fishermen die at sea annually. These avoidable deaths are primarily attributable to unsafe practice and ill-equipped boats (which are often without the most basic safety features). What's more, when a fisherman dies, their family does not only lose a father, a husband, a son, but often their only source of financial income.

In response, The FISH Safety Foundation have developed a safety intervention programme. The initiative, fishSAFE 2025, was supported by Lloyd’s Register Foundation funding and has produced a rigorous communications and training program to inform fishermen around critical equipment failures, legalities, methods of good seamanship and ways to mitigate risks. This training programme spearheads a self-sustainable culture change, where fishermen will carry forth this safe-practice to eventually become the educators. A sibling initiative, the Re-Fish Campaign, is now working to tackle resource shortages; supplying fishermen with lifejackets, first-aid supplies and communication devices.

fishSAFE 2025’s educational posters are accompanied by raw footage, shared by fishermen in Bangladesh, lending contextual insight into their perilous daily reality aboard precarious fishing vessels.

Poster translation
BE PREPARED FOR ANYTHING AT SEA
The fishSAFE 2025, (Phase 1):
Bangladesh Fishing Safety Intervention Program
 

In conversation with The FISH Safety Foundation