Yemaya No. 56, dated January 2018, features articles from India, Norway, Tanzania, the Carribean Islands and an analytical article on the European network, AKTEA. The editorial comment stresses the importance of adopting strategies that are relevant to promote gender mainstreaming in the fisheries sector in our times. The article on the Carribbean Islands shows how the Carribean Network of Fisherfolk Organizations (CNFO) has benefited from engaging in projects aimed at institutional strengthening and capacity building. Edithrudith Lukannga, in her article on AWFISHNET(African Network for Women Fish processors and Traders), looks at the challenges they are facing in the path of creating a platform for women fish traders and processors. Women make up more than 27 per cent of the workforce in the African fisheries and aquaculture sector. From Norway comes a piece that describes the challenges women confront in Norwegian Fisheries after 25 years of the introduction of the quota system. Siri Gerrard looks at the impact of low female workforce participation since 1990 and how it leads to the development of gender-blind policies. Katia Frangoudes, tracing the history of organizing women in European fisheries, argues that formal recognition of women’s work is often necessary to mobilize and build organizations and allow women’s leadership to emerge. Jesu Rethinam, Gandhimathi Alagar and Vivek Coelho, India in their article, point out that how stewardship of coastal land is the primary challenge for coastal communities. The article shows how women of the community can work with the men to master simple techniques towards building local data to support their own struggles for coastal rights. A profile of K.C. Rekha by Amrutha K.J., narrates the story of perhaps the first seagoing fisherwoman from Kerala (India) and the difficulties she has faced without any formal policy recognition and community support. The Milestones column presents the findings of the recently published Global Gender Gap Report which notes that it will be another 217 years before we achieve gender parity! The insightful report advocates that to achieve sustainable development goals across the sectors, governments must need to make gender equality a critical part of their nations human capital development. The What’s New, Webby? column presents the recent initiative of FAO’s Family Knowledge Platform (FFKP). The site provides a single access point for information related to family farming issues and small-scale fisheries. The Yemaya Recommends sectiontalks about how the film, “Women at the Water’s Edge”, reveals the catastrophic effects of climate change on the lives of the Sundarbans’ fishing communities in India. The current issue of the journal also carries the ever-popular cartoon strip, Yemaya Mama. Yemaya No. 56, January 2018, can be accessed at: https://demo2.icsf.net/en/yemaya/article/EN/56.html?limitstart=0 For more, please visit demo2.icsf.net