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 paper relies upon research conducted in 1997 and 1998 that included an analysis of fisheries scientific and management discourse and a series of interviews with fishers from New England,...
Although women constitute 50% of the total population of Bangladesh, only 18% are economically involved in the total labor force. They are involved in diversified work within their homesteads. However,...
Community-based marine protected areas have become a popular coastal resources management method advocated in many projects and programs. While many case studies have been written about factors contributing to project...
The objectives of these Technical Guidelines are to provide a focus on small-scale fisheries and their current and potential role in contributing to poverty alleviation and food security by expanding...
Despite more than a century of colonial occupation, radical political and administrative change, and more recent motorization of fleets and gear introductions, there remains in Viet Nam a still functioning...
A companion document of a video made on women in craft fishery in Cultimar, Chile. The video is taken wth an objective to increase and develop the participation of women...
CVTV-23, Vancouver, WA (January 24, 2000) Two lectures: Brian Atwater describes the detective work and sources of information about the January 1700 Cascadia earthquake and tsunami; Walter C. Dudley talks...
The document describes the Mi’kmaq Confederacy of Prince Edward Islands, Canada. A particularly important focus of the efforts of the MCPEI has been the establishment of a Fisheries Directorate to...
Co-managing the commons within the new governance structures of South Africa has the potential to promote participatory democracy and improve natural resource management. Inequitable access to and use of natural...
Rajdhala beel is a semi-closed fishery located in Purbadhala thana in Netrakona district of Bangladesh. There are 4 villages around the beel with 640 households of which 93 households are...