 20 years ago, we formed a World Forum of Fisher Peoples in New Delhi, so we are back to New Delhi to celebrate. What we have here is small scale fisher folk from more than 40 countries across the world and all of us are saying the same thing. This notion of privatisation or ocean grabbing, 20 years ago we didn't speak about that. So now what we see is happening that there is a lot of encroachment into the spaces where small scale fishing communities live and where we land our fish or where we work from, where we launch from. And those spaces are being taken away and they are being taken away in many different ways, either through legislation or through regulation or through what is called development. In many cases around the world, development takes the form of the building of big ports on the spaces and the landing sites where we launch from and where we land our fish from. And with these big ports, our spaces are taken away. And when our spaces like that is being taken away, it means our livelihood is being taken away. Recently, Government of India announced a project like Sagar Mala. Why they announced Sagar Mala? To give, to make mega ports and it will go to Adhani Group. Only for Adhani, again 54 new ports are coming. And they are fishing area and the fish are people. To protect the mega port, they have to construct a protection wall. So in our area, the Government has planned a mega transshipment terminal at a huge cost of around 30,000 crores of rupees, a mega project. To protect the port, they are going to construct 9 kilometers length of a protection wall. So when such a length of 9 kilometers length of the breakwater is constructed to protect the port, so more than 20 kilometers of coastline, which accommodates so many villages will automatically disappear in another 10 years. High production, most of the countries are now trying to convert their water bodies or coastal lands or even lagoon into aquaculture grounds. So we cut down mangroves. We add a lot of chemical pollution into the water and that affect the fishes in those areas. When we lose the mangrove areas with aquaculture and all these practices, that highly contributed to the pollution to the lagoon and water bodies. And also our women, maybe more than 65 percent, 75 percent people, women are depending on those mangrove areas for catching prawns or catching some fish and so on. In that context, when we lose those mangrove grounds, so women don't have any way of getting fish from those areas, so they lose their food security. That kind of development is negative development and we are completely opposed to that. So when we speak today at this General Assembly about ocean grabbing, the building of big ports is grabbing the ocean for private gain. And that private gain is the gain for corporate companies at the expense of communities. Climate change is a huge issue. For us, it is, we would like to speak about the injustice of the climate, of climate change. There is a pattern and that pattern, we say, is a change in the climate. But that change is not driven by us. That change doesn't come about because of how we work as small scale fishes. We clearly see the pollution. We clearly see the ocean water temperature warming up. We clearly see that the fish that we used to fish is no longer there. What we also see is the sea level is rising. Now we know what the sea level, we know where the low water mark and the high water mark is because this is our life. We live there, we work there, we know what it is. So when we see the difference between the two, then we see that the sea level is rising. So all of these things are happening not because of us, but if we look out there in the ocean and we see what corporate fishing companies are doing, what big industrial fishing companies are doing, the way they destroy the ocean, the way they harvest and they're harvesting method, just trolling, just drags their nets and it's utter destruction. That is what we're saying is contributing to climate change. We face a climatic crisis, it's all over the world. Not only the fisher people, but also the other communities as well. So many extreme weather conditions, either drought or maybe floods or hurricanes or many ways people are affected. But in this situation, the fisher people are most vulnerable because we are living mostly in the sea and when we go to the sea, we don't know what will happen in the sea and if there's a hurricane or if there's a gale or if there's a tsunami or whatever, we are the affected people, most affected people. When water temperature goes up, coral reefs start dying. When it increases one temperature, so the coral reefs start dying. So when coral die, no more fish will survive in those areas. So they also migrate to other places, preferable places. So that directly affect the cost of communities. We don't have any other way of life. This is the only way of life and this is our culture also. So if we lose those grounds, we lose our culture, lose our families, lose our future, lose our even food and other income that we are gaining. A special case, a special category need to create for the protection of the traditional and the small-scale fisher folk in the UN level. This general assembly will take this issue in the international level. There are the kinds of issues that we are grappling with and debating here in this seventh general assembly of the world, former fisher people. We need to protect our fish wealth. We need to protect our fisher folk.