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.
The women in fisheries programme was designed to assess the needs and status of women in fishing communities with regard to their livelihood security, food and nutrition, and community development....
In the first part of this three-part paper, the author discusses the importance of fisheries as a source of employment, food and income, particularly in developing countries. In the second...
The findings and recommendations of research carried out on women’s fisheries development in Pacific island countries in the last decade have not resulted in greater support. The paper aims to...
This publication presents a record of the 1998 International Symposium on Women in Asian Fisheries. The fisheries sector has unique problems related to women, which have to be addressed not...
This report presents the findings and the recommendations of the Survey of Dalit Women’s Human Rights Violations post the Indian Ocean tsunami in Tamil Nadu, India. The Survey was conducted...
The author strongly feels that the “invisibility” of women’s role in fisheries, particularly of the wives and daughters of fishermen, has resulted in the exclusion of fisherwomen’s issues. One consequence...
The study looks into the pattern of fish marketing in which women traditionally engage through two decades (1960-1980) and their struggle for survival. This study has been conducted in four...
The 1980s in India saw the rise and growth of the fishworkers movement demanding the right to their survival and questioning the fisheries policy of the State. Within this context,...
The report describes critical issues vis a vis integrating gender concerns in development activities in the fisheries sector. One central focus of the workshop was to identify strategies to enhance...
In the Pacific Islands, an estimated 70 to 80 per cent of the catch from inshore fisheries is used for subsistence purposes. It is uncertain what percentage of that is...