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.
Chile is one of the world’s leading countries in landings (catch) of marine resources. The paper reviews the development of marine conservation actions since approximately 1970 to date, focusing on...
Past experience and the current status of coastal and marine resource uses are summarised through the examples chosen in order to explain the main constraints to the attainment of sustainability....
After considerable review of empirical data and evaluation analyses, the World Bank, the African Development Bank and other agencies came to the conclusion that people living in protected areas are...
This thesis presents the results of a study of the consequences of a Marine Biosphere Reserve in the Gulf of Mannar on the livelihoods of women and their households in...
Recent arguments for conventional fisheries management approaches (CFMAs) and against no-take marine protected areas (NTMPAs) are reviewed, i.e. CFMAs are more effective, density-dependant factors will lead to reduced fish stock...
Marine reserves have been proposed as a remedy for overfishing and declining marine biodiversity, but concern that reserves would inherently reduce yields has impeded their implementation. It was found that...
Between 1993 and 1998, 63 villages in Khong District, Champasak Province, southern Lao P.D.R. established co-management regulations to sustainably manage and conserve inland aquatic resources, including fisheries, in the Mekong...
This presentation identifies the various conflicts, between communities and management authorities, in the privately managed MPA in Zanzibar.
As the process of marine-protected-area design and implementation evolves, the incorporation of new tools will advance our ability to create and maintain effective protected areas. We reviewed characteristics and approaches...
The conservation of the marine environment is an integral part of the broader initiatives of environmental conservation in Kenya. A major motivation for the delineatio n of Marine Protected Areas...