Get an annotated online bibliography on small-scale fisheries and fishing communities. Resources are classified under eight themes: Right to Resources, Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture, Disasters and Climate Change, Decent Work, Fisheries Trade, Aquaculture, Biodiversity and SSF Guidelines
Women engage in a wide range of activities in fisheries, including paid and unpaid work and liaison with institutions. In several countries, women dominate inland fishing and aquaculture. Their play multiple roles – in seafood processing plants, as caregivers in the family, as the builders of social networks and community.
Gender issues focus not on women only but on their relationship with men, on their roles, rights and responsibilities. They acknowledge that these vary within and between cultures as well as by class, race, ethnicity, age and marital status.
The 2014 SSF Guidelines are based on the principle of gender equality and equity. They integrate gender issues into all small-scale fisheries development strategies.
In this paper, the author talks about sea tenure using illustrative studies and recent conservation project reports to make the case for why more clearly defined property rights, in general,...
Co-management of coastal and marine resources in the Caribbean appears advanced in contrast with other regions. This makes a comparative study of the causes and special characteristics of the region...
Under a community-based fisheries extension programme in Samoa, 44 coastal villages have developed their own Village Fisheries Management Plans. Each plan sets out the resource management and conservation undertakings of...
Community-level management of lake fisheries is becoming an increasingly viable alternative in many areas of Amazonia. Population growth and increased commercial fishing have led to intense competition and conflict over...
In many fisheries around the world, the failures of centralized, top-down management have produced a shift toward co-management-collaboration and sharing of decision making between government and stakeholders. This trend has...
Colonial rule in Africa privileged Western Knowledge Systems (WKS), discredited Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) and provided the context for the fashioning of ‘scientific knowledge’ about Africa. The exigencies of the...
This paper summarizes the findings of two partly overlapping comparative international projects on government industry interaction in fisheries management in the seven Nordic countries, the USA, Canada, Spain, France and...
This study presents the geographical and nominal identification of the fishing areas of the artisanal fishery of the Patos Lagoon estuary (Brazil) as known by local fishermen. One hundred and...
Community-based coastal resource management (CBCRM) is a major conservation and fisheries management strategy in the tropics. In this study, the performance of 16 CBCRM programs in the Philippines was assessed...
River fisheries in Bangladesh is characterized as ‘‘open-access’’ and the history of administrative and legislative measures bear ‘‘contradiction and dilemmas’’ in resource extraction. Because of the persistent dilemma in government...