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.
The Seri callo de hacha (CDH) fishery provides an excellent opportunity to study these promising alternatives. This fishery is one of many Mexican small-scale fisheries unregulated by the Mexican Government....
Modern fisheries management strategies, such as closed areas and seasons, quality of catch and gear restrictions, have not yielded the expected and desired results in the small islands of the...
This paper considers the debate on common property resources by exploring the conditions under which rural communities in Southern Thailand implemented and enforced rules of restricted access in coastal fishing....
The dugong is classified as vulnerable to extinction by the World Conservation Union on the basis of declines in area or extent of occupancy, habitat quality, and actual or potential...
For a long time, the Tanzanian Fisheries Department has managed Tanzanian fisheries without incorporating other stakeholders within its management framework. On Lake Victoria, the persistent use of illegal fishing gear...
Madagascar’s southwest coast supports some of the largest coral reef systems in the western Indian Ocean. These reefs not only provide critical habitat to thousands of marine species but also...
The development of Japan’s community-based fishery management system is described. Over the past 250 years, three fishery laws were in effect. These fishery laws commonly adopted a fishing rights system...
This brief presents a review of lessons learned and good practices in developing management plans within the context of community based resource management (CBRM) in Solomon Islands. The lessons are...
Historically, the Mi’kmaq, the indigenous people of Atlantic Canada, relied on and managed fisheries through a system based on clan groupings and natural cycles. Regulations placed on harvesting practices –...
In 2009, Unnayan Onneshan has worked on issues related to climate change, agriculture, food security, agrarian transition, budget analysis, and biodiversity in the Sundarbans, environmental displacement etc. The Ecology, Environment...