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.
Women crabmeat processors from the Mexican state of Tabasco opt to migrate to the US despite the difficulties they face. This article is excerpted from a case study prepared by...
Women from New Brunswick are concerned about equity in terms of women receiving equal pay for work of equal value, and equity in terms of access to the fisheries resource.
Excerpts from an interview with Joana Rodrigues Mousinho, President of the fishermen’s colonia of Itapissuma in Pernambuco, Brazil.
This article stems from a meeting with Lourdinha Rodrigues, secretary of the colônia of Ponte de Pedras Goianahas, Brazil, who has worked to give women fishworkers a new self-identity.
This article is by a shellfisher from Brooklyn, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Women traditionally working as cleaners on oyster boats have found themselves forced out of their jobs.
Nova Scotia fishing families cope with the loss of their identity when they can no longer fish.
This article outlines how illegal trawling has taken a heavy toll on fishing communities in North Sumatra.
A community-based coastal resource management program in Philippines spear headed by women proves to be a fascinating learning process.
This is a report of a meeting held beteen 25 to 29 January 2002 at Thailand, for the Asian Fisherfolk Conference: Cut Away the Net of Globalization, that focused on...
This article is a first person account by a woman belonging to a Nova Scotia fishing family in Canada, on how the common person can never afford to become a...