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 Urok Islands Community MPA is part of a network of national protected areas that comprise the Bolama and Bijagós Archipelago Biosphere Reserve. Recognised by Unesco since 1996, the reserve...
The Philippines archipelago is an important centre of tropical coastal marine biodiversity. Since the 1970s, various national and international actors have popularised marine protected areas (MPAs) as an effective tool...
Coral reef conservation strategies such as marine protected areas have met limited success in many developing countries. Some researchers attribute part of these shortcomings to inadequate attention to the social...
The management plan is prepared for the establishment and the first five year management of the proposed ‘Agatti Conservation Reserve’ in Agatti, Union Territory of Lakshadweep, India. The proposed new...
In this paper the author assesses the status of culture in marine management, particularly in emerging marine protected area (MPA) frameworks and discourse. A sense of the breadth, direction, and...
The author addresses the emergence, governance, and effects of marine reserve efforts in the Gulf of California, Mexico, emphasizing a community-based marine reserve network established by the commercial diving sector...
A photographic journey through the daily lives of the artisanal fishers of Tarcoles.
Fishing in the Tsitsikamma National Park has officially been halted since 2001. However, the desire to fish in the Marine Protected Area remains high among the local communities in Tsitsikamma....
This paper discusses fisheries management reforms through involving local level institutions (LLFI). It is based on studies which were undertaken on Tanzania’s Lake Victoria fishery where LLFIs were established through...
This paper reviews the participatory fisheries management policy processes that have taken place in Malawi and proposes some key policy options for sustainable management of Shire river fisheries resource. The...