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 document is the final report of the Technical Consultation between Malawi. Mozambique and Tanzania on the Development and Management of the Fisheries of Lake Malawi/Niassa/Nyasa. The major topics discussed...
Adopts a common position for the forthcoming Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference negotiations under the WTO Doha Work Programme.
In ACP waters, fisheries resources, increasingly over-exploited, are targeted by local fishing fleets, by Distant Water Fleets, like the EU, and by vessels fishing illegally. The EU access to ACP...
An Act to repeal and replace the Fisheries act, 1970, to make provision for sustainable developement, protection, conservation, aquaculture development, regulation and control of fish, fish products, aquatic flora and...
Tthe country has embarked on conducting weekly aerial patrols over the said zone as a way of ensuring that industrial fleets from other countries don’t fish in its artisanal fishing...
The Master Plan will serve as a tool for the government authorities to identify the strategies that the State will adopt to achieve the medium term (five years) and long...
A re-visit study was conducted with an aim of assessing characteristics of the Lake Chiuta Fisheries Co-management arrangement. For local level institutions called Beach Village Committees (BVCs), social status, material...
This presentation summarizes the findings from eight African countries where case studies of co-management arrangements in artisanal fisheries have been undertaken during the period 1996-97. The countries concerned are Benin,...