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.
Colonial rule in Africa privileged Western Knowledge Systems (WKS), discredited Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) and provided the context for the fashioning of ‘scientific knowledge’ about Africa. The exigencies of the...
Sawen is a traditional resource management institution that originally integrated the management of forests, the sea and farmland using cognitive aspects (local knowledge and resource management principles), regulatory aspects (codes...
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...
This booklet summarizes the legal knowledge and experiences built up and challenges faced during five years of implementation of the Community Based Fisheries Management Project – 2nd Phase. In Bangladesh,...
Poaching fish in Kutch Sea
THE INDIAN Ocean and its adjacent seas have the largest number of active fishermen in the world. And nowhere else have so many fishermen been killed…
This Essay will focus on how Canada and the United States have both succeeded and failed in adopting cooperative approaches to managing ocean fishery resources. A critical factor that has...
Systematically integrating the efforts of various working groups, using informal governance regimes, can result in ecosystem based management, industry stability and an overall increase in both environmental and economic well...
In the United States, state courts have long been aware that well-reasoned decisions evaluating the state interests that must be taken into account in determining the scope of federally protected...
This thesis addresses one of the contemporary problems facing the sustainability of world’s fisheries—illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. As a result of IUU fishing, it is estimated that Indonesia...