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.
This paper is presented to the FAO Advisory Committee on Fisheries Research (ACFR) Working Party on small-scale fisheries for its consideration. It explores the priority given to small-scale fisheries as...
This paper examines the crucial role that social and political institutions in a local community, Moree, and its migration network within and beyond Ghana (where it is often connected economically...
Since the 1970s, small-scale fisheries have had an important place in fisheries social science and in fisheries management. While there has been substantial discussion of what constitutes the category of...
A collection of sketches of boats belonging to small scale fishers
Pacific Islanders had evolved great ability to move about freely within their island strewn ocean. There was a complex spatial component in the economies of the pre-colonial Pacific, demanding considerable...
The need to integrate women into rural development activity has recently received more and more attention in countries bordering the Bay of Bengal. National machinery has been developed for the...
This paper gives an idea about the scenario at Thailand, with regard to over fishing, economic and social impacts on the small scale fishermen, and the existing situation in Thailand....
This study aims at examining the role and status of women in the rural sector of Malaysia from the perspective of their economic contribution and participation. In view of recent...
This paper deals with one such group of peasants- the artisanal fishers of Kerala who, in the late 20th century, have had to struggle against the effects of processes of...
This overview of the roles of women in southern Thai small-scale fshing villages is a conclusion of the Support Network for Women in Fisheries (SNWIF) project. This paper presents the...