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.
UNESCO, on its platform for Environment and Development in Coastal Regions and in Small Islands (CSI), initiated a process which brings together many different approaches in order to improve the...
Representatives of CSI’s small-island activities, as well as persons from other initiatives in the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific regions, met in Samoa in December 2000. The meeting was unique...
The Motu Koitabu are a group of people indigenous to areas in and around the coastal city of Port Moresby and the National Capital District. They are the traditional owners...
The islands and coastal regions along the eastern shores of the Andaman Sea are home to a distinctive people, the ‘Chao Lay’ or ‘sea nomads’, whose life styles, languages and...
An inter-regional small island workshop was held in Dominica from 4–6 July 2001 to further ideas on coastal stewardship, especially in relation to beach resources, in small islands. Participants came...
Pacific Island communities are heavily reliant on natural resources to sustain their livelihoods and as a consequence they have developed an intimate understanding of their local environment. Communities have been...
Fisheries provide millions of people with a source of livelihood. Yet across the world, these resources are fast diminishing because of pollution, habitat destruction, overfishing, natural disasters, and climate changes....
Icelandic women have been a part of the Icelandic fishing fleet since before the seventeenth century and continue to hold positions at all levels of the fishing industry. This appears...
Small-scale fisheries support the livelihoods and food security of millions of people worldwide, and if well managed can make significant contributions to socio-economic development. Coastal populations in developing countries can...
This paper fills an important gap towards adaptive management of small-scale fisheries by analyzing the gender dimension of fish trade in Zanzibar, Tanzania. We hypothesize that gender-based differences are present...