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.
This article describes the experiences of the Establishment of Marine Reserves in Negros Oriental (EMRINO) project, which took place in central Philippines, from September 1994-December 1996. The project’s aims were...
Extractive reserves have been touted as a novel approach to assigning property rights such that biodiversity conservation and economic development objectives can be reconciled. It is based on the idea...
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. The paper reviewed characteristics and...
Many developing countries experience habitat degradation and unsustainable natural resource exploitation, with biodiversity and habitat conservation efforts often impeded by political instability and limited funding. Challenges in previous conservation efforts...
Marine protected areas (MPAs) have been widely adopted as the leading tool for coral-reef conservation, but resource users seldom accept them, and many have failed to produce tangible conservation benefits....
Commercial and recreational fishers in the Gulf of Mexico routinely express in public testimony their concern over the number of fishery regulations in general, and the prospect of having closed...
In this report, the World Bank assesses factors likely to determine marine protected areas’ (MPA) success and identifies opportunities for the Bank and its partners to scale up MPA implementation...
This presentation identifies the various conflicts, between communities and management authorities, in the privately managed MPA in Zanzibar.
: This paper is a result of a direct survey of forty-two MPA managers-individuals directly responsible for site management- regarding the institutional arrangements governing the development and management of a...
During the workshop, invited experts and FAO staff discussed characteristics of marine protected areas (MPAs) relevant to fisheries management. Their discussions were informed and stimulated by six background papers on...