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.
Community-level management of lake fisheries is becoming an increasingly viable alternative in many areas of Amazonia. Population growth and increased commercial fishing have led to intense competition and conflict over...
Fisheries experts now recognize that resource conflicts can be diminished and resources better managed when fishers and other resource stakeholders are more involved in management, and access rights are distributed...
The search for effective ways of managing renewable natural resources is currently being intensified in many developing countries. In order to attain optimum utilization and renewability of the resources, emphasis...
Although customary marine tenure (CMT) systems for the management of local marine resources occur throughout the world, compared with other models of fisheries management they remain relatively little known. The...
These are conclusions drawn by the participants of Panglima Laot Meeting in the Special Province of Aceh about preservation and development of the culture, custom, and traditional institutions in the...
This is a report based on a consultancy taken up by the authors. It is based on information derived from formal presentations and discussion statements by country representatives during the...
Throughout the colonized world, colonial administrators sought to articulate their policies in the idiom of indigenous traditions and institutions. This process of manipulating tradition to serve the interests of the...
The paper discusses the situation of women in fisheries with special reference to developing countires. It discusses specific, concrete development policies, strategies and actions important for the integration of women...