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.
This article examines the state of community-based management and participatory governance in Canada as it applies to integrated coastal and ocean management (ICOM). The article analyzes the barriers confronting participatory...
This case study is about a unique institution called Kadakkody (literally meaning “sea court”) prevalent in Kerala, in Malabar coast of India. Its presence as well as the institutional reinvention...
In several South-east Asian countries, after a long history of marginalisation and loss of control over natural resources, indigenous peoples and local communities have recently been trying to regain rights...
This paper presents results of a study, which examined local ecological knowledge and traditional management practices in lake resources management on Chisi Island. A combination of household questionnaires, semi structured...
In the present paper, community-based fishery management of the stake-seine fishery of Negombo estuary, Sri Lanka, is described with a view to identifying property right regimes in the fishery. In...
In the present paper, community-based fishery management of the stake-seine fishery of Negombo estuary, Sri Lanka, is described with a view to identifying property right regimes in the fishery. In...
Indonesia follows a system of open-access fisheries and common property management, so that anyone can enter the fisheries without any restriction. This system has led to over-exploitation without any thought...
Two community based coastal resource management (CBCRM) projects, implemented in Ream National Park and Peam Krasaop Wildlife Sanctuary are the first examples of CBCRM within Cambodia’s coastline. The processes of...
In this paper, the positive prospects as well as problems of local resource management in Indonesia are presented through recent case studies in Kalimantan and the Maluku Islands. These case...
In 1993 a study of coastal villages in Vanuatu revealed that within the previous three years there had been a rapid increase in marine resource management (MRM) activities. The initial...