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.
Women in Europe have participated actively in the fishing sector since the 19th century. Statistics collected from the European Union showed that women participate actively in fish processing activities, followed...
Women are rarely consulted when the state collects information on the fishing sector. This is despite the fact that women are significantly involved in inland fishing, particularly for subsistence, in...
This issue of Indian Society of Fisheries Professionals is a collection of six articles on women in fisheries presented at an international conference on the same subject, in Mumbai in...
This presentation gives information on APEC’s commitment to engender fisheries, the conceptual frameworks the organisation uses for analysing gender, its efforts to internalise gender awareness and the resources it uses...
For current fisheries management systems and practices, women’s concerns, interests and contributions are typically considered unimportant. It is not simply a matter of neglect, but rather an issue of perceived...
Throughout the world, women of fishing communities play a central role in the fisheries and in maintaining the social fabric. However, they remain largely invisible, and their roles largely undocumented....
This report points out that the socio-economic and cultural importance of small-scale fisheries is rarely recognized in national fisheries development policies, which tend to emphasize large-scale, industrial fisheries. Drawing from...
The author examines through a feminist lens how the tension between two views—a way of life and a way to make a living—is played out and how these changes affect...
These guidelines provide general principles and basic considerations for those involved in providing microfinance services to fisheries and aquaculture and for those who intend to include fishing and fish farming...