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.
The Workshop of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on child labour in fisheries and aquaculture, organized in cooperation with the International Labour Organization (ILO) was...
A child refers to a human being below the age of 18. The International Labour Conference has set a target date for the elimination of worst forms of child labour...
Child labour is a great concern in many parts of the world and it is estimated that there are some 215 million child labourers globally. While exact data on child...
This webpage contains some information on fishworkers in India, the various components, the existing laws and policies relevant to the sector, the organization and voice and platform of demands. Links...
This is a statement based on a ruling by the High Court of Australia which unanimously held that successive Commonwealth and Queensland legislation, which prohibited taking fish and other aquatic...
This provides the full text of the judgment in the case of Akiba on behalf of the Torres Strait Regional Seas Claim Group v Commonwealth of Australia. The order provides...
The Asia-Pacific region is home to a diversity of coastal cultures that are highly reliant on the ocean and its resources for sustenance, livelihoods, and cultural continuity. Small-scale fisheries account...
News items on LMMA included in the MPA News issues between 2008 and 2013 have been collected into one single document. The LMMA Network is a group of practitioners working...
Conservation success is often predicated on local support for conservation which is strongly influenced by perceptions of the impacts that are experienced by local communities and opinions of management and...
The Regional Fisheries Livelihoods Programme supported the development of pilot village regulations in two districts of Indonesia’s Nusa Tenggara Timur province in order to provide the foundation for community-based management...