In fisheries, there are particular labour and safety issues, including occupational safety and health, entry into workforce and working conditions, which are governed by a range of specialized and general international instruments. While work in aquaculture is not equally regulated under international norms, it also presents a range of labour-related problems. The applicable labour and safety standards could inform general or labour-specific legislation in fisheries and aquaculture. Safety and labour concerns may form part of substantive provisions relating to the livelihoods and protection of fishers and fish workers and the institutional arrangements for the management of fisheries resources, monitoring, control and surveillance. Some labour and human rights instruments and also sector-specific instruments with labour standard components, such as the Voluntary Guidelines on small-scale fisheries, provide for the rights of all workers without distinction and the concomitant obligations of States. Legislation in the fisheries sector may include labour standards as part of vessel safety requirements, as preconditions of access, license or permit to fish, in provisions relating to observer, inspection, port State and enforcement schemes, and in the context of multi-stakeholder administrative and management structures. There are also specific laws on labour in fisheries which include those that lay down material and social security-related support to fishers and fish workers and those that provide detailed regulatory frameworks for work in fishing. There is also market State legislation that mainly puts in place mechanisms to prevent the violation of fundamental principles and rights at work in the context of fish value chains and the fight against IUU fishing. It is recommended that such schemes should include non-compliance with labour standards/ legislation as part of the conditions that result in the denial of access to market for fisheries products. Full report is available at: http://www.fao.org/3/CA0018EN/ca0018en.pdf