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.
The major roles performed by fisherwomen and the average time spent on these roles are analyzed. While pre-processing and fresh fish marketing are major roles performed by fisherwomen in Kerala,...
In the history of fisheries in the Pacific region, women’s activities are either overlooked as domestic work or strictly confined to those requiring low-technology such as basic gleaning on reef...
Women have been deprived of good education, improved status, and active participation in development due to the cultural barrier that existed in traditional Cambodian society. However, the situation is rapidly...
The bêche-de-mer industry is essentially a cottage industry. Men are engaged in going out into sea and diving for the material. At some places women and children are engaged in...
A discussion is presented on the emerging role played particularly by the tribal women in activities related to reservoir fisheries in Bangladesh. It is based on a primary survey that...
The findings are presented of a survey conducted in the village of Wawu, Nigeria, to document the role of women in the various activities they conduct in the artisanal fisheries...
A brief examination is made of the role played by women in fisheries in rural environments in India. Areas in which women may be encouraged to participate include: capture fisheries;...
This is a collection of information on women’s fishing in Kiribati. Women have a central socio-economic and cultural role in fishing in both the subsistence and cash sectors. Through the...
In Pacific islands men are increasingly being drawn into commercial fishing activities while women collect invertebrates, an activity not seriously taken into consideration by many fisheries department, and thus women...
The study analyzes the cultural, economic and social processes behind the apparently, unusually strong economic position of “fish mammies”—women fish traders in Ghana. These women invest in fishing equipment and...