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.
Chumbe Island Coral Park (CHICOP), established in 1991 and possibly the first fully functioning MPA in Tanzania, provides an illustration of issues that arise with the installation of a privately...
The conservation of maritime areas under Belizean jurisdiction is undertaken in the context of a relatively uncoordinated assortment of legislative acts. These acts give authority to several key government agencies,...
Terrestrial private protected areas safeguard millions of hectares of biologically significant habitats worldwide, but uptake on submerged lands has been limited, due primarily to the erroneous assumption that the oceans...
This paper summarizes the results of a women’s community-based marine protected area that has been successful in sustaining invertebrate biological resources and in promoting strong community support. We outline the...
This study was produced as part of the ongoing UN Food and Agriculture Organization‘s Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem (BOBLME) Programme. This study reviews the status of marine protected...
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are portions of the marine environment which are protected from some or all human activity. Often these are proposed as a safeguard against collapse of fish...
The Khanh Hoa Province People’s Committee, the Ministry of Fisheries, and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) are working to implement Viet Nam’s first marine protected area (MPA) in Nha Trang...
A strategic issue facing many developing economies is the maintenance of natural resources, which are important in ecological terms as well as providing income from tourism. This paper presents an...
In 1998-99, the World Bank sponsored a survey of coastal communities in five Pacific Island countries – Fiji, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Tonga. The purpose of the study was...
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are often met with reluctance by affected stakeholders, and in some instances outright objection. Some argue that this is due to insufficient understanding of the functions...