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.
Fish and fisheries play an integral part of the culture and tradition in the life of the people of Bangladesh. The country has some 600 oxbow lakes created from dead...
Fish and fisheries play an integral part of the culture and tradition in the life of the people of Bangladesh. The country has some 600 oxbow lakes created from dead...
Fishing communities are faced with massive aquatic ecosystem degradation caused largely by unsustainable fishing, and associated socio-economic challenges. In this context, aquaculture has given mixed signals with high economic growth...
Fishing communities are faced with massive aquatic ecosystem degradation caused largely by unsustainable fishing, and associated socio-economic challenges. In this context, aquaculture has given mixed signals with high economic growth...
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 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...
The recent enforcement of ‘no take’ regulations in the Gulf of Mannar National Park compromises the livelihood security of fisherwomen and local communities
This book explores the ambiguities and complexities of caste, religion, class and gender in the Catholic fishing community of the Mukkuvars, at the southernmost tip of the Indian subcontinent. These...
This research discusses the role of women in traditional Samoan society. It also outlines a prawn project in Auala, a Samoan village, as a case study that demonstrates the value...
The American workplace is changing. The 1950s image of the white male leaving the wife and family every morning to work his 9-to-5 job has been replaced by dual career...