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 research paper studies an initiative of community-conservation in an artisanal fishery on the Pacific of Costa Rica. The case-study is linked with the wider history and situation of conservation...
Malawi is a small developing country that is dependent on fisheries as a source of employment and protein. The country supports an artisanal fishery for both commercial and subsistence use....
Tourism has long provided economic benefits – jobs and income – for national and local economies. Especially in developing countries, tourism has the potential to generate employment and income and...
Traditional fishery rules are poorly documented in the eastern Caribbean. An outstanding exception is the work of James Finlay, the recently retired head of the fisheries authority in Grenada. His...
The present study is a continuation of a research begun in 1996 in the Kwirikwidge area in Mozambique and its main objective is to evaluate the present stage of the...
This presentation describes the strengthening of traditional institutions through a GEF project in Vanuatu as well as some of the issues such as wanting to promote tourism.
Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from poverty and malnutrition. Fisheries, as a major contributor to primary production in Africa, plays a significant role in combating these problems. In contrast to the marine...
Tourism has long provided economic benefits – jobs and income – for national and local economies. Especially in developing countries, tourism has the potential to generate employment and income and...
Traditional fishery rules are poorly documented in the eastern Caribbean. An outstanding exception is the work of James Finlay, the recently retired head of the fisheries authority in Grenada. His...