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 article is a report of a meeting to mark the first anniversary of the Workshop on Gender, Globalization and Fisheries held in May 2000.
Families of fishermen in foreign jails have a difficult time surviving. This article talks about the issues that women of fishing families face, when their fishermen husbands find themselves in...
At the end of September 2001 the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), Kerala organized a Public Hearing on “The Impact of Globalization on Women Workers in Kerala”. Here, women workers...
A woman fish vendor from Kerala, India, describes her life and the problems she had to deal with.
Even though women are highly involved as workers in artisanal fisheries and in their communities, their roles have been constantly undermined and undervalued. This article looks at the situation in...
This article contains notes from a trip to Chile in October 2001.
This brief profile of a fisherwoman from Chile is taken from the book ‘Mujeres de la Pesca Artesanal, relatos e imágenes de mujeres de la V región’ (Women and artisanal...
This article is on women workers in the fisheries sector in Chile, who are are often not formally recognized or covered by social security.
In March 2006, the Superior Federal Court of Justice, Brazil, ruled in favour of the rights of the community of Prainha do Canto Verde over their land. This article outlines...
The community of Mehuín, on the southern coast of Chile, is fighting against the polluting operations of the cellulose company, CELCO, in order to preserve the source of their livelihoods.