The International Drawing Competition: Protecting our fisheries - inheriting a healthier world is held as a part of a children and youth education initiative intended to enhance awareness of the importance of responsible fisheries among children and young people and to provide them with the knowledge that can help them to become responsible adults and active agents of change in our society.

1. PROTECTING OUR FISHERIES INHERTING A HEALTHIER
WORLD

2.  From ancient times, fishing has been a major
source of food for humanity and a provider of
employment and economic benefits for millions of
people.
 Eating fish is a healthy nutritional part of a
balanced diet but making sure fish can continue to
be available to all long into the future takes
informed choices by all of us.
 Fishery is an important activity for maintaining
the livelihoods of millions of people around the
world.

3. The International Drawing
Competition is open to ALL children
and young people from 6 to 20
years of age.

4.  Drawings should reflect issues
concerning the importance of
responsible fisheries.

5.  Drawings should be on white A4-size
or letter-size paper in the round or
square frames.

6. • Drawings could be used for making small
badges and large posters!
•US$250 to the winner of each age group
(6-10, 11-15 and 16-20 years old).
• US$150 will to the runner up of each age
group and.
•US$100 will be awarded to the third best
drawing of each age group.

7. The deadline for submitting
your drawings is
30 November 2012.

8. by e-mail to: children-youth@fao.org
Or by post to:
Reuben Sessa
FAO, NRC
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00153 Rome, Italy

9.  You can find all the information about the
competition in five different languages by
clicking here.
 For further information please email:
children –youth@fao.org