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.
In recent years, the shortage of fishery male workers has become extremely serious in Japan. The objective of this study is to clarify how such a situation has affected the...
The extended North Atlantic fisheries crisis has greatly transformed the sexual division of labour along the coast of Scotland. Only a handful of places remain where virtually every household relies...
The extended North Atlantic fisheries crisis has greatly transformed the sexual division of labour along the coast of Scotland. Only a handful of places remain where virtually every household relies...
Origins and organization of New Bedford financial settlement houses are examined. Settlement houses are an important part of the extensive fishing community and have made significant historic contributions. Most contemporary...
This is a description of the fisheries sector in Uruguay and the progressive occult “feminization” of the sector. The strong demand for women is a consequence of shortage of capital...
This article expands through the history on the increasing role of women as pioneers of the sea.
In this richly detailed, sensitive ethnographic work, Sally Cole takes as her starting point the firsthand accounts of five differently situated Portuguese women, who describe their lives in a rural...
The theme of this book is life and work along the coast of Norway and other coasts. Our focus shifts from the furthest frontier posts on the Barents Sea and...
The study revolves round El Bajo, the main settlement of a poor barrio, part of an economically depressed region, extending along the southeast section of the coast of Puerto Rico,...
A brief discussion is presented on the role that the Khasi women of Meghalaya, India, play in the marketing of fresh fish, considering also the various problems they face, such...