On the upside in September we had inspiring meetings bundling the voices of small-scale fishers and showing with good examples of collective action what’s possible when they stand together, work on solutions and seek to broaden alliances. This was the case at the SSF Summit in Rome supported by the FAO and the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) which then carried its findings and demands forward to the FAO Committee of Fisheries (COFI) meeting the following week. That was also the case of the European edition of the 4th World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress in Malta, which specifically looked at what opportunities can be opened for better and just futures for small scale fishers and fisheries. Vedi NewsLetter