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 document provides a general introduction to the problem of forced labour and human trafficking in the fisheries sector. The objective of the document is to create a common frame...
This Guidance on addressing child labour in fisheries and aquaculture provides an overview of information on child labour in fisheries and aquaculture and of the international legal and policy frameworks....
Thailand’s seafood industry employs more than 650,000 people with exports totalling $7.3 billion in 2011.9 This includes the seafood processing sector, aquaculture and marine fisheries. As a result of long...
The Resolution and Plan of Action adopted during the ASEAN-SEAFDEC Conference on Sustainable Fisheries for Food Security Towards 2020 “Fish for the People 2020: Adaptation to a Changing Environment” in...
The sea presents unique possibilities for implementing confidence building measures (CBMs) between India and Pakistan that are currently not available along the contentious land borders surrounding Jammu and Kashmir. This...
The stretch of water that divides Australia and Indonesia measures some 2000 kilometres in length. It incorporates two seas, the Timor and Arafura, and a number of reefs, islands and...
Marine fisheries are dynamic and always prone to change in tune with the changing demands, challenges, advancement of technologies etc, as is evident in modification of fishing crafts and fishing...
Tells the story of Australia’s northern waters and their dramatic transformation in the twentieth century from a backwater to the most militarised and fiercely guarded region in Australia.
This paper explains the ongoing conflict between Trinidad & Tobago and Barbados over the right to catch flying fish off the coast of Tobago. The aim of the paper is...
South East Asia has always had maritime conflicts. In this these disputes have increased in intensity in recent years. A population increase couple a with a lotion material expectations has...