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Social protection and labor programs can help households adopt more sustainable practices and build resilient livelihoods, yet they seldom reflect the specific needs of fishers and fish workers. This policy note outlines how fisheries-oriented social protection and labor policies could be extended and leveraged to improve acceptance and compliance with regulations and advance fisheries management goals.","SOCIAL PROTECTION & JOBS | POLICY & TECHNICAL NOTE MAY 2022 | No. 25  \nPublic Disc losure Authorized  \nPub lic Disc losure Authorized  \nHIGHLIGHT  \nPeople in the fisheries sector have limited access to social protection, despite experiencing increasing risks linked to climate change and overfishing. While social protection and labor programs can enable and incentivize households to engage in more sustainable practicesand more resilient livelihoods, they rarely respond to the specific needs of fishersand fish workers. This policy note outlineshow social protection and labor policies and programs might be extended to better assist fisheries actors, and how these policies and programs could be better leveraged to support acceptance of and compliance with rules and regulations and, ultimately, to better achieve fisheries management objectives. While there are numerous challenges, there are also clear opportunities to adapt social protection and labor instruments to the fisheries sector in order to reduce overall vulnerability—of people, and of the ecosystems that support them—for a more sustainable future.  \nConnecting Social Protection and Fisheries Management for Sustainability:  \nA Conceptual Framework  \nAnnabelle Bladon, Gunilla Tegelskär Greig, and Yuko Okamura  \nAnnabelle Bladon is a Senior Researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development. Gunilla Tegelskär Greig is a Senior Fisheries Specialist and Yuko Okamura is a Senior Social Protection Economist at the World Bank. The authors are grateful to Ugo Gentilini, Loli Arribas-Banos, and Margaret Grosh for their comments and guidance, and to Luz Rodriguez, Yashodhan Ghorpade, Anita Kendrick, and Xavier Vincent for peer review. This note was produced under the activity “Blue Social Protection: Connecting Social Protection and Fisheries Management,” with support from PROBLUE, a multidonor trust fund administered by the World Bank that supports the sustainable and integrated development of marine and coastal resources in healthy oceans .  \n1. Introduction  \nThe fisheries sector1 is a critical component of the Blue Economy,2 providing employment, food, and cultural value for billions of people globally. Fisheries and aquaculture support the livelihoods—directly or indirectly—of around 10 percent of the world’s population (FAO 2020) .3 The vast majority (approximately 97 percent) of people employed in capture fisheries and related activities live in lower-and middle-income countries (LMICs) and, of them, more than 90 percent are in the small-scale fisheries (SSF) sector4 (World Bank 2012a; FAO 2020) .5 Fish is also an important source of nutrition, providing more than 3.3 billion people with almost 20 percent of their average animal protein intake, and up to 50 percent or more in some LMICs (FAO 2020) . SSF have been estimated to produce around half of the global fish catch destined for human consumption (World  \nBank 2012a; FAO 2020) . While marine and coastal resources tend to overshadow inland resources in national and international policy arenas, inland fisheries—which are mostly small-scale—provide critical nutrition in rural areas and employ even more people (particularly women) globally than marine fisheries do6 (World Bank 2012a; Funge-Smith & Bennett 2019) .  \nDespite the importance of the sector, fishers, fish workers, and their communities in LMICs experience increasingly high levels of risk, and rarely have access to effective risk-management mechanisms. Not only are they greatly exposed to climate-related hazards, but they also tend to be vulnerable to a range of other shocks and stresses—particularly in the SSF sector. 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