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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.

Resources

ICOR, Vulnerabilities of fishing communities to ecological and climate changes. A Pilot Study in Dharavi Bet, Mumbai by Institute for Community Organization Research. Indian Network on Ethics and Climate Change. July 2011

This is a study of the impact of local ecological changes, global warming and coastal flooding on fishing communities in the Mumbai suburbs of Manori, Gorai and Uttan (administratively, Uttan...

Zander, K.K., L. Petheram and S.T. Garnett. Stay or leave? Potential climate change adaptation strategies among Aboriginal people in coastal communities in northern Australia. Natural Hazards, February 2013. 10.1007/s11069-013-0591-4

Coastal northern Australia is largely owned and occupied by Aboriginal people who are strongly connected to their traditional country. We assess the views of Aboriginal people in Arnhem Land on...

McClanahan, T.R., J.E. Cinner, E.J. Ayana, M.J. Hardt, J. Jacquet and J.N. Sanchirico, Trends, current understanding and future research priorities for artisanal coral reef fisheries research.

Artisanal coral reef fisheries provide food and employment to hundreds of millions of people in developing countries, making their sustainability a high priority. However, many of these fisheries are degraded...

Martin, Sarah M., Kai Lorenzen and Nils Bunnefeld. Fishing Farmers: Fishing, Livelihood Diversification and Poverty in Rural Laos. Human Ecology, March 2013. doi: 10.1007/s10745-013-9567-y

The relationship between fishing, livelihood diversification and poverty was investigated in the lower Mekong basin, in Laos, where fishing forms an important, but usually secondary part of rural livelihoods. Results...

Harsem, Øistein and Alf Håkon Hoel. Climate change and adaptive capacity in fisheries management: the case of Norway. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, March 2013, Volume 13, Issue 1, pp 49-63.

Climate variability and change drive changes in marine ecosystems, such as growth in and geographic distribution of living marine resources. Mitigating measures in response to anthropogenic climate change are insufficient,...

Ahmed, N. Linking prawn and shrimp farming towards a green economy in Bangladesh: Confronting climate change. Ocean & Coastal Management, Volume 75, April 2013, Pages 33–42.

The coastal aquaculture sector in Bangladesh is dominated by export-oriented freshwater prawn and brackishwater shrimp farming, both are commercially known as “white gold” because of transnational value. This article reviews...