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.
These recommendations were presented at ICSF’s “Regional Workshop on Post-Tsunami Rehabilitation of Fishing Communities and Fisheries-based Livelihoods”, held in Chennai on 18 and 19 January 2006
This Report gives a brief overview of the status of the reconstruction and recovery program in Aceh and Nias and highlights some of the key steps taken by the Government...
Edited by Clive Wilkinson, David Souter and Jeremy Goldberg Abstract: The tsunamis of Sunday 26 December 2004 caught many people unprepared and unaware in Indian Ocean countries. This unexpected event...
This report focuses primarily on the direct and indirect influences of fish trade on food security. It reviews in detail the positive and negative impact of international fish trade on...
A dossier with specific reference to Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported – IUU – Fishing
The Kenya’s Fisheries sub-sector has the potential to significantly contribute to the national economy through employment creation, foreign exchange earnings, poverty reduction and food security support. The annual fish production...
Africa is rich in freshwater resources, which are of value to the communities. The resources are under threat and have continued to deteriorate despite many effort by national and regional...
This paper concentrates only on the problem of the over-fishing of the stocks of commercial fish species. The Lake Victoria fisheries are among the world’s most important inland fisheries.The findings...
Exports of Nile Perch from Lake Victoria do not appear to be benefiting local vulnerable populations in any way. Hubert Sauper made a four-year thorough enquiry in Tanzania on the...