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.
Worldwide, the past 15–20 years has seen a significant shift in thinking and approaches to the management of small-scale fisheries. This is in response to the recognition that conventional fisheries...
Using a new framework combining vulnerability and exclusion as two central dimensions of poverty, this article revisits some of the long-standing beliefs about poverty in small-scale fisheries. We argue that...
This book is about small-scale fisheries (SSF) in the developing world. Globally, about 97% of the people directly involved in fisheries work in the developing world and they catch about...
This presentation summarizes the findings from eight African countries where case studies of co-management arrangements in artisanal fisheries have been undertaken during the period 1996-97. The countries concerned are Benin,...
This paper looks at how the SADC Protocol on Fisheries deals with the artisanal fisheries sector and the implications for the efforts of SADC artisanal fish workers organizations to engage...
Prainha do Canto Verde (PCV) is a small village located in the northeastern part of Brazil in the Federal state of Ceará at 126 km from the capital city Fortaleza....
Since the mid 1990s there has been a concerted effort to encourage fisheries sustainability by targeting large scale, high catch fisheries and by raising consumer awareness. Because of the often...
This address discusses the twin and interlinked concerns of fisheries governance and food security in developing countries. A continuation of trends promoting more participatory modes of governance involving both government...
This book is a collection of papers presented at the seminar “Socio-economic Conditions for Development of Artisanal Fisheries in Africa”. The papers are of two main categories: one presents the...
For millennia, harvesting resources from the seas, lakes, and rivers has been a source of sustenance and livelihood for millions of people. That is nearly as true today as it...