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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

Kura, Yumiko Carmen Revenga, Eriko Hoshino and Greg Mock. Fishing for Answers: Making sense of the global fish crisis. World Resources Institute. October, 2004

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...

Small-scale Fisheries Research Needs. The World Bank/United Nations Development Programme/Commission of the European Communities/Food and Agriculture Organization. World Bank Technical Paper Number 152, Fisheries Series.

This Working Group Report examines the critical problems affecting small-scale fisheries research. It first deals with an outline and diagnosis of the different small-scale fishery situations. This is followed by...

Eythorsson, E. Voices of the weak – relational aspects of local ecological knowledge in the fisheries. Chapter 11 in Commons in a Cold Climate (Ed: S. Jentoft). 185-204. Man and Biosphere Series, UNESCO, 1998,

This documents the importance of local knowledge of the fishermen and looks into the rise and fall of industrialized whaling in Finnmark. The local spawning stocks and the concept of...

Small Fishermen in Asia speak out. Bangkok, May 1978.

After three days of deliberations, the small fishermen gathered in the seminar decided to draft a manifesto of their rights and to draw attention to the problems facing them. Eighteen...

Kurien, John. Special issues and requirements in the management of small-scale fisheries in developing countries. For use as an Annexe to the guidelines for Responsible Fisheries Management. Prepared by the Food and Agricultural Organization, Rome, August 1996.

There is now increasingly widespread concern in developing countries about making small-scale fisheries ecologically sustainable, economically viable, culturally vibrant and managed with greater and more meaningful input by genuine small-scale...

Bene, Christophe. Small-Scale Fisheries: Assessing their Contribution to Rural Livelihoods in Developing Countries. FAO Fisheries Circular No. 1008. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 2006, 46p.

Traditionally, the contribution, role and importance of small-scale fisheries have often been described in thematic terms such as economic, social, employment and source of food. However, the contributions of small-scale...

Panayotou, T., 1982 Management concepts for small-scale fisheries: economic and social aspects. FAO Fish.Tech.Pap., (228): 53 p

This paper provides an analytical framework for the management and development of coastal small-scale fisheries in developing countries. In a brief review the basic management concepts developed for single-species fisheries...