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 article analyses how bonding and bridging social capital function in community-based coastal resource management as common-pool resource management in Fiji. Strong bonds among villagers help disseminate information and knowledge...
In this paper the author argues that community-based co-management of wild-capture fisheries has considerable potential for contributing to the improvement of biodiversity conservation in PAs, relations between PA staff and...
The community in the Ho‘olehu Hawaiian Homesteads on the island of Moloka‘i is strengthening community influence and accountability for the health and long-term sustainability of their marine resources through revitalization...
This report reviews approaches to costal management and community management in Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. It includes the case study on fisheries management in Thailand. Malaysia is the only...
Much of the marine related traditional knowledge held by fishers in Vanuatu relates to increasing catches while managing resources of cultural, social and subsistence value. Traditional beliefs and practices associated...
There is general agreement among conservation practitioners that community-based marine protected areas (CB-MPAs) can improve food security in coastal communities. However, little attention has been given to how communities respond...
Communities along the Atlantic Coast have relied on the fishery resource for centuries. Recent declines in fish stock, exclusion of First Nation communities, and government policies that favor high-cost allocation...
Mismanagement of global fisheries resources has an overwhelmingly negative effect on the survival of community-based fisheries. In developing countries, community based fishing is a socially as well as economically valuable...
Mismanagement of global fisheries resources has an overwhelmingly negative effect on the survival of community-based fisheries. In developing countries, community based fishing is a socially as well as economically valuable...
Throughout the feudal era up until the early 1970s a traditional management system was in effect in eastern Indonesian areas. However, this system was steadily replaced by centralized government control....