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.
The Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (VG SSF), endorsed by the 31st Session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI)...
This information note discusses the likely impacts of climate change on fisheries and the role of trade and trade policies in supporting adaptation and mitigation measures in fisheries. https://www.ictsd.org/sites/default/files/downloads/2009/10/climate-change-and-fisheries.pdf
The study analyzes support for fisheries management through the adoption of ethical principles that can initiate change in individual behaviour, attitude and actions implicit in the current policies for achieving...
This book chapter explores the issue of trafficking at sea. In this chapter, NEXUS shares the experiences of forty-six trafficked Ukrainian seafarers and fishers. It describes how Ukrainian men were...
My purpose in inviting a discussion on crew conditions in the Pacific Islands comes from three directions. One path is fisheries and environment, another is job security and food supply,...
This compendium serves as a resource on the international law relating to the links between humans and nature. It is the result of a rights-based approach to provisions in international...
Threats to the marine environment are complex, multiple and often overlapping or synergistic. Mitigating these threats, likewise, is not simple, but rather relies upon multiple management approaches, ranging from controls...
The whale shark, Rhincodon typus, is a long-lived migratory species inhabiting tropical and warm-temperate waters worldwide. Seasonal aggregations of whale sharks in shallow coastal waters of many countries have led...
This thesis presents a case study of Solomon Islands to address the overarching question: do locally managed marine areas contribute to sustainable small scale fisheries and what are the implications...