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.
EEZ legislation of ASEAN States
This report brings out vividly the sufferings of Pakistani fishworkers in Indian jails and the families of Indians in Pakistani jails. It drives home the fact that the fishworkers do...
Under a community-based fisheries extension programme in Samoa, 44 coastal villages have developed their own Village Fisheries Management Plans. Each plan sets out the resource management and conservation undertakings of...
Produced for the Discovery Channel in 1997, this video shows a Japanese city that builds walls against tsunamis, talks with scientists about tsunami prediction, and has incredible survival stories.
Community-based fisheries management is being widely promoted as an alternative to centralized systems based on the familiar bioeconomic models that have manifestly failed to prevent a near catastrophic overexploitation of...
The interactions between government and community in the management of reef and lagoon Fisheries in the Pacific Islands region are described, and recommendations made concerning the types of interaction that...
The usefulness of conventional fisheries science for long-term fisheries management and policies in the resource-poor islands of the pacific is very limited. Fishery managers can, however, make use of such...
The author discusses some long-term continuity in the socio-political dynamics of customary marine tenure in the Melanesian South Pacific. Building on field research material from Solomon Islands, and paying close...
As in much of Oceania, Palauan society of the pre-European contact era practiced sophisticated systems of tenure and management that extended to the fish and other resources of the surrounding...
This paper has attempted to address three important reservations to the property-rights approach to fisheries management — equity and monetization, politicization, and uncertainty – by developing a localized resource management...