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.
A number of studies have been conducted on the differential impacts of aquaculture on various social groups in India. These studies indicate that women’s participation and contribution to the aquaculture...
The National Workshop on Women In Fisheries and Climate was held from March 9-11 in the Philippines. It aimed to (1) determine climate change impacts on the women in coastal/...
While tourism does provide an opportunity for women, it is worthwhile to examine whether the achievements are initiated by women as agents of their lives and future in an aspirational...
Karaikal District Fisher women Federation was facilitiated to bring into its fold the members of all sangams. Federations are the Community Based Organizations that have emerged as the formalized institutional...
When Diane Wilson, fourth-generation shrimp-boat captain and mother of five, learns that she lives in the most polluted county in the United States, she decides to fight back. She launches...
Over the last century, major climate changes and intense human exploitation of natural living resources have occurred in the Southern Ocean, potentially affecting its ecosystems up to top marine predators....
This paper reports on a project conducted over 4 field seasons in the town of Qeqer -tar suaq in West Greenland, identifying and examining vulnerability and adaptation to climate change....
Climate change, fishing, and aquaculture have affected and will continue to influence Canadian marine biodiversity, albeit at different spatial scales. The Arctic is notably affected by reduced quality and quantity...
Arctic ecosystems are undergoing rapid changes as a result of global climate change, with significant implications for the livelihoods of Arctic peoples. In this paper, based on ethnographic research conducted...
An existing Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) model for the Central North Pacific was updated and modified to focus on the area used by the Hawaii-based pelagic longline fishery. The EwE...