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 articles talks about how women’s roles in European fisheries have finally been given due attention, but there is still a long way to go before women get the real...
This article is on the shrimp fisher community from Netherlands, which faces problems due to the initiatives they undertook aspiring for a better life and environmentally sound fisheries
This article is about a women’s association from El Pamar, Valencia, Spain, which challenges the age-old patrilineal system in which only the male offspring of fisherfolk inherit the rights to...
This article is a portrait of Jeannette, a fishworker from France whose life is characterized by buoyancy.
This article is about women in the fishing community of Wieringen, who have revived the local economy by creating a local fresh fish market.
This article details how the professionalization of the coastal fishing fleet and the introduction of fish quotas have further marginalized women in Norway’s fishing industry
This article reports on VinVis, the Women in Fisheries Network of the Netherlands, two years after it was started.
The Women in Fisheries Network of the Netherlands, VinVis, has now been in existence for one year. This article describes its journey, its highlights, and limitations.
Women from fishing communities and women supporters from Spain, France, Holland, and Norway met in Brussels from 19 to 22 November 2001 to exchange experiences and to discuss the review...
Women from fishing communities and women supporters from Spain, France, Holland, and Norway met in Brussels from 19 to 22 November 2001 to exchange experiences and to discuss the review...