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 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,...
The 10th anniversary of the signature of the COMESA Treaty celebrated last December in the margin of the Policy Organs meeting was an ideal occasion to take stock of the...
The Program on the Lakes of East Africa (PLEA) is a research, training, and service program of the African Studies Center of Michigan State University in collaboration with the fisheries...
This manual of fish culture is one of the series and presents the essentials of fish culture to the farmer or landowner wishing either to raise fish for the family...
Kenya is a coastal state with a marine coastline of 536 Kilometres and a well-developed marine fishing industry.The fisheries sub-sector provides employment and income to over 500,000 Kenyans engaged in...
The Kenyan government recognized in Session Paper No.3 of 1975,”Statement of Future Wildlife Management in Kenya “,the need to manage and conserve the country ‘s natural resources.Accordingly,the Fish Industry Act...
Kenya faces important challenges in implementing stronger food safety measures, especially in light of its small development budget. It cannot export fish unless it incurs huge costs. Ultimately a partnership...
The Lake Victoria Basin is considered one of the most important shared natural resource by the Partner States of East Africa. Initially, much of the donor interest focused mainly on...
The present study is a continuation of a research begun in 1996 in the Kwirikwidge area (Mozambique) and its main objective is to evaluate the present stage of the implementation...
In Malawi, awareness of the need to conserve fish stocks is increasing, and extension messages regarding the conservation of these stocks are popular. Through the example of the Mbenji Island...