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.
Provides a critical analysis of the progress, including their successes and failures of the management of marine protected areas in Madagascar. Provides case studies of the Nosy Atafana Marine Park...
Contrasts the results of two community based marine resources management projects in Southern Philippines. The process of implementing marine reserves with sanctuary areas in each island is explained and compared.This...
This book is about marine protected areas located in the various islands of the Philippines and managed or co-managed by fisher communities and peoples’ organisations.
A report of the symposium providing the papers presented on Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), the need for it as a tool for fisheries resource management and the management of these...
This study contributes to the growing sentiment that it is not realistic for scattered, small no-take areas to maintain fish abundance and diversity on surrounding reefs when intensive fishing effort...
These Guide lines explore protected area approaches and models that see conservation as fully compatible with human communities – as managers, decision-makers, residents, users, caretaking neighbours – and that regard...
The objective of this document is to provide technical advice on the establishment and management of MCPAs and networks of MCPAs. The document contains, in a succinct format, the key...