Manifesto for the protection of the human rights of small-scale fishing communities in ColombiaThe participants of the First National Dialogue Fishing for Justice: Human Rights Violations in Fishing Territories* organised on March 10th at the Universidad del Magdalena (Santa Marta, Colombia), after reflecting on the problems and struggles faced by artisanal fishing communities to protect their lives, their human dignity, and their right to participate in decision-making processes that affects them, declare that:Artisanal fishing is an ancestral art that is integral to human ways of living in marine, coastal, riverine and swamp places in Colombia.This art is one of the pillars of a "Total Peace", being an essential part of the social fabric, culture, identity, security, and food sovereignty of communities living in the Pacific, Caribbean (including insular areas), and continental areas.Fishers are peaceful by nature, they have patience in their blood, following the rhythms of fish, even waiting for hours at the seas and rivers for the first catch.Many fishing communities maintain traditional ways of living, resisting historical, colonial, extractive, and armed conflict violences.Indeed, continuing to fish in this context is in itself an act of peaceful resistance every day.