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.
Includes regional overview and country profiles of South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Tanzania, Seychelles, Kenya and Somalia
Aquaculture is currently responsible for an insignificant proportion of total fish production in Uganda. However, given the increasing demand for fresh fish in urban and peri-urban areas, and threats to...
The establishment of new fisheries will be addressed in a structured manner by (a) bringing already on-going fishing activities which have emerged without coherent management, or in the absence of...
This BIODIVERSITY PLANNING MANUAL is a call to planners and other stakeholders in the Four Corners Area, to incorporate the biodiversity information gathered for this project into their work in...
The paper also looks at the structural level where changes and recommendations are proposed. Specifically, the paper recommends that issues such as the unsustainable utilisation of coastal resources; sedimentation; and...
This paper discusses the effects of trade and export of fish from Lake Victoria to industrialized countries. on the basis of preliminary findings from short visits to a number of...
Like all sectors of the Ugandan economy, the fisheries sector has not been spared the scourge of HIV/AIDS. The rate of HIV/AIDS in fishing villages throughout the African Great lakes...
The Lake Victoria fishery has come under increasing pressure in the last two decades. Fish production peaked in the early 1990s and currently catches of most species are showing downward...