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Creator:: Agbekpornu, Hayford, Yeboah, Doris, Quaatey, Samuel, Williams, Rosina, Yeboah, Richard, and Issah, Fuseina
Abstract:: This study examines the willingness of canoe owners and crew members to participate in an insurance scheme in Ghana. A total of 386 canoe owners and 164 crew from four (4) coastal regions and the inland lake areas were sampled. Data was collected through semi-structured questionnaires on socio-economic characteristics, canoe...
Resource Type:: Presentation and Research Paper

Creator:: Sen, Sevaly
Abstract:: Some export fisheries in Australia have opted for third party certification to gain or maintain access to export markets. For domestic fisheries, the economic and management benefits of third party certification have yet to be fully demonstrated. However, as a response to community perceptions, competition with other users of the...
Resource Type:: Presentation and Research Paper

Creator:: Andersen, Peder, Andersen, Jesper, and Mardle, Simon
Abstract:: The European Common Fisheries Policy Reform includes new discard regulation that is likely to have the greatest impact on fisheries and fleets of any recent regulation. However, there is a distinct lack of data or empirical knowledge available to inform the effects on fleets. This has the potential to result...
Resource Type:: Research Paper

Creator:: De Young, Cassandra and Brugere, Cecile
Abstract:: Vulnerability assessments play an important role in the climate change adaptation process in that they link physical changes (either current or projected) with the ability of aquatic and human systems to cope or benefit from such change. In general, a vulnerability assessment helps to target adaptation actions by better understanding...
Resource Type:: Presentation

Creator:: Olsen, Petter
Abstract:: The documentation of sustainability constitutes a significant opportunity for product value-adding in the captured fish sector, and a means of differentiating sustainably caught and landed fish from inferior alternatives. In the industry-owned R&D project WhiteFish the main objective is to create a tool for catch and processing SMEs in the...
Resource Type:: Presentation

Creator:: Ayanboye, Abolupe Oluyemi, Adeosun, Olubunmi, Ajibade, Akinniyi Oyetunji, Rafiu, Rasheedat Abidemi, and Saliu, Esther
Abstract:: The artisanal fisheries sector makes a significant contribution to income, employment creation and food security in Nigeria. To help improve the economics performance of the artisanal fisheries in the artisanal fisheries of Ogun waterside, this report presents the outputs of a value-chain study for the sector. The study was taken...
Resource Type:: Presentation

Creator:: Toseland, Rebecca
Abstract:: Catch share programs are emerging as a rights-based management tool capable of improving biological and economic performance in marine fisheries relative to traditional command and control regulation approaches. This paper examines the determinants of the transition from command and control regulation to rights-based management in marine fisheries. I develop a...
Resource Type:: Presentation

Creator:: Pedroza, Manoel, Barroso, Renata, and M. V. Flores, Roberto
Abstract:: Emergence of fish farming in Brazil has generated significant effects on household agriculture, in terms of food security and income generation. However, small-scale fish farmers in the state of Tocantins have been affected by a transformation process concerning the emergence of supermarkets in the fish market. The lower prices and...
Resource Type:: Presentation

Creator:: Kochen, Momo
Abstract:: Within Indonesia and across the region the requirement for traceability within the seafood supply chain is limited to meeting the basic standard of HACCP, namely that the individual fish be traceable back to the 1st supplier, for quality sampling purposes. No common template for traceability exists and hence companies follow...
Resource Type:: Presentation

Creator:: Sillah, Alagie
Abstract:: Women are crucial to the fisheries and the aquaculture sector. Worldwide, fishery and aquaculture production activities provide revenues to an estimated 155 million people, of whom a substantial proportion is female. In developing countries most fishing activities fall into the small-scale fisheries sector employing roughly 40 million people, and directly...
Resource Type:: Presentation

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