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 1991 the Philippine government shifted many coastal management responsibilities to local governments and fostered increased local participation in the management of coastal resources. In their delivery of integrated coastal...
We analyze the compliance behavior of artisanal fishermen in the Galapagos Marine Reserve. Our empirical analysis explores the role of the reserve’s participatory management system as a determinant factor in...
Marine protected areas (MPAs) cannot be managed outside the context of human societies that are dependent on their associated ecosystems and resources. This means that local people’s perceptions need to...
Based mainly on Serge Collet’s work — in particular for the theoretical approach — and on his own field research, the author tries to contribute to a better understanding of...
This paper is intended to provide a source of discussion for a workshop sponsored by the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, to be held on 1-3 May 2001 in...
An advisory committee appointed in 2001 has recently given the Norwegian authorities its recommendations regarding the establishment of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). This work is based on the findings of...
This article reviews the governance and management of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), and the coral reefs they contain in the eastern African Region. This includes the Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius,...
Chile is one of the world’s leading countries in landings (catch) of marine resources. The pioneer studies of human impacts on coastal marine communities provided the scientific basis on which...
Conservation incentive agreements are negotiated contracts by which resource users forego destructive activities in exchange for benefits provided by conservation investors based on conservation performance. Although this tool is increasingly...
Implementation of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) has always a step-zero, i.e., an initial phase when the idea is incepted, communicated and negotiated among stakeholders. What happens during this phase is...