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 study examines the role and status of women in the rural sector in Malaysia, their economic contribution and participation. Given the recent concern to fully utilize women’s economic potential,...
The paper starts with an analysis of the gender roles of women in the fisheries sector. These roles are recognized in three stages of production: fishing, processing and marketing. Further,...
This research aims to measure the contribution of Sri Lankan fisher women in the fishery sector, as well as socially and economically. It outlines the various activities that constitute their...
From pre-colonial times the people of Sota, a village on the shores of Lake Victoria in Mara region of Tanzania, have subsisted on agriculture, animal husbandry and fishing. This article...
According to the Department of Agriculture, aquaculture would account for half of the country’s fish requirements by 2008. As of 2002, 40 per cent of total fisheries production already comes...
This document is a compilation of papers presented at the National Workshop on Women in Fisheries. It provides an overview on the role of women in fisheries in the coastal...
NOAA/PMEL. Features tsunami destruction and fires on Okushiri Island, Japan; good graphics, explanations, and safety information. Narrated by Dr. Eddie Bernard (with Japanese subtitles).
WNET Video Distribution An episode of the “Savage Earth” series. Tsunamis around the Pacific Rim.
The Bijagos islands, the only deltaic archipelago on the Atlantic coast of Africa, comprises 80 islands and covers an area of nearly 10,000 km2 off the coast of Guinea Bissau....