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.
In 1999, the women of Baraulu and Bulelavata villages in Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands, created a community-based marine protected area to sustain marine resources valuable for nutrition and income-generation. This...
This article is about a success story of a fishing community in Moree, Ghana. The community, particularly the women, not only solved the problem they faced—processing fish—using lateral thinking, but...
In 1999, the women of Baraulu and Bulelavata villages in Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands, created a community-based marine protected area to sustain marine resources valuable for nutrition and income-generation. This...
In New Caledonia, the largest mangrove swamps are located on the west coast and in the northern part of the main island. Mud crabs live in shallow (010 m) soft...
In New Caledonia, the largest mangrove swamps are located on the west coast and in the northern part of the main island. Mud crabs live in shallow (0–10 m) soft...
On Lakemba, a small island in the southern Lau Group of Fiji Islands, women from the villages of Nasaqalau and Waitabu traditionally catch fish using a method called vono. Although...
In Fiji, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea, women convert marine plants [sea weed], an underutilized but locally abundant resource, into saleable market products. The author of this article emphasizes the...
Primarily written for women who are interested in setting up small-scale fisheries businesses, this manual covers topics ranging from undertaking free feasibility research, producing business plans as well as setting...
This report on gender issues in Solomon Islands, Palau and Vanuatu in the tuna industry aimed to assist the Fiji Islands government in the preparation of a national tuna development...
A discussion is presented on the important role played by women in the fisheries of El Salvador. Official statistics for El Salvador reveal that very few women fish, approximately 6...