Fisheries and agriculture form the backbone of the Solomon Islands economy. The population is around half a million people, of whom 94 percent live within five kilometers of the coast. Women are key to effective fisheries management and development in Solomon Islands. They make up half of the community for...
This study explored how micro-credit benefits women processing cultured catfish into smoked form by obtaining and analyzing their perceptions. The specific objectives included identifying micro-credit sources used, sources preferred and ranking factors considered when deciding on a micro-credit choice. Multi-stage sampling technique was used in selecting 120 processors analyzed. Analytical...
Lack of adequate gender-specific data and statistics has given rise to stereotype assumption on the contributions of men and women in agricultural production; aquaculture inclusive. This consequently has negatively influenced policies and programs geared towards increased productivity. The study was therefore aimed to analyze the gender participation in aquaculture value...
Fisheries are recognised to provide important contributions to the economy, through the creation of jobs, growth and GVA from both the catching sector and associated supply chain activities. They also provide social benefits, through individual well-being, contributions to strong communities, and knock-on benefits through supply chains. However, in national terms...
Over 11 % of total population engaged in fisheries and aquaculture and out of them about 10% is women in Bangladesh (DOF, 2013). Thus, women make essential contributions to local food security and in many cases; they take part in the commercially fishing production and trading too. There are pervasive...
This document provides a summary of a Special Session held at the IIFET 2016 Scotland conference in July 2016. The title of the special session was: Gender Research as a New Frontier in Fisheries and Aquaculture Economics: In the Footsteps of Rosemary Firth. The session was organized by Meryl Williams.
Women's contributions to fisheries are often overlooked in fisheries management, economic analyses, and consequently, in policy decisions. Fortunately, women's contributions are gaining recognition despite a lack of quantitative data describing the scope and scale of their participation in the sector. While there are numerous studies describing the role of women...
This research examines the gendered livelihood implications of fisheries management decisions through an exploration of a seasonal ban on fishing. The 45 day closed fishing season on the Eastern coast of India began in 2001 and applies to mechanized boats. While there is existing research on the impact of the...
This paper fills an important gap towards ensuring gender responsive fish value chains by analyzing the factors that influence women’s participation in fish value chains and value chain governance in Malawi. The study was based on the hypothesis that gendered differences are prevalent in the fish value chains and their...
Petatán is a fishing village bordering Lake Chapala, the largest lake in Mexico. Most fish caught in the lake and in other water bodies in the region are processed here. Petatán houses the second largest fish processing industry in the region. The fish filleted here goes to the second largest...
Women in general play a critical role in every aspect of the production process and value chain in small-scale fisheries. Their best known roles are however in processing and marketing of fish and fishery products. The fish sector (capture fisheries and aquaculture) is an important source of income and livelihoods...
The role of women in fisheries is often undermined. Several studies have tried to show how important is women in fisheries, particularly in marketing. In support for this kind of studies, this paper will try to measure the role of women in fisheries sector. Using a one full year fish...
Over the past several years we have been developing Fishery Performance Indicators (FPIs) to measure the degree of success fisheries systems have in achieving environmental, economic and community outcomes. We have also developed indicators of key input factors. Among the input factors we have explicitly developed indicators for women’s participation and leadership...
Modern fisheries and aquaculture value chains are diverse, often complex and dynamic, with men and women undertaking different and changing roles depending on culture, concerning resource access and control, mobility, type of technology involved, the extent of commercialisation, and the product involved (De Silva, 2011). Female roles in Sri Lankan...
In this study, socio-economic structure of fishermen in Samsun Shelf Area was investigated between January 2014 and May 2015. Questionnaires were applied to 42 fishermen by visiting the region three times. At the end of the study, the age distribution of the fishermen were mentioned between 29 and 69 years;...
İstanbul Bosphorus is a strategic fishing area with its physico-chemical and geographical characteristics. Also because of İstanbul metropole is taking part there, İstanbul aquatic Products fish market has become an important position in the region. The high variety of species and product entrance quantity rates provided us a continuous data...
Proceedings of the Eighteenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, held July 11-15, 2016 at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Center (AECC), Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
The paper adopts the double-bootstrap data envelopment analysis developed by Simar and Wilson in 2007 to estimate and explain technical efficiency of white-leg shrimp farming in Ninh Thuan, Vietnam. This procedure not only enables consistent inference within models explaining efficiency scores but also produces confidence intervals for these efficiency scores....
In Tanzania, the overall objective of the National Fisheries Policy is to develop a robust, competitive and efficient fisheries sector that contributes to food security, nutrition, growth of the national economy and improvement of the wellbeing of fisheries stakeholders. The overall goal of fisheries management is to produce sustainable biological,...
The European Common Fisheries Policy landing obligation has introduced significant uncertainty over quota uptake in the coming years. This year (2016) is the first year of the landing obligation for fleets targeting demersal stocks even though it will not be fully introduced across demersal quota stocks until 2019. A recent...
The Leptobotia curta, known as the Ayumodoki in Japanese, is a Japanese endemic freshwater fish that has been designated as a national treasure since 1977. This fish is, however, categorized as a "critically endangered species" by the Ministry of the Environment's Red Data Book in Japan. While a direct reason...
The management of internationally shared fish stocks is a major economic, environmental and political issue. According to international law, these resources should be managed cooperatively under international fisheries agreements (IFAs). This paper studies the formation and stability of IFAs through a coalition game that accounts for both direct consumptive values...
Proceedings of the Eighteenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, held July 11-15, 2016 at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Center (AECC), Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
Proceedings of the Eighteenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, held July 11-15, 2016 at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Center (AECC), Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
This study was conducted with the aim of modeling and forecasting the Indian shrimp export prices to the USA. Two major species mainly Black tiger (Penaeus monodon), white legged shrimp (Litopenaeus Vannmei) headless, shell on form, grade 16/20 were considered for the study. Published data on weekly price indicators of...
Access to credit has been identified as a crucial tool in increasing fish production in the developing countries like Nigeria. Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme Fund (ACGSF) was established for the purpose of boosting agricultural production (fish production inclusive). It is, therefore, imperative to study the Influence of Agricultural Credit Guarantee...
Poverty issues cannot be underestimated in fish farmers' production as they influence farmers' attitudes towards risk. Despite the fact that there are studies on fish production risks, there is little or no study on fish farmers' poverty status and risk attitudes nexus in Nigeria. Hence, this study examined risk attitudes...
Small-scale shrimp farmers have contributed significantly to the increasing of shrimp production in Indonesia. In line with increasing production, they have also faced with various risks, thus resulting in high fluctuation of their income. Risk management strategies are needed to cope the risks and to increase their sustainability in shrimp...
The generation of market information is critical in the dynamic and highly differentiated global seafood market. Information has strategic value and market information is therefore vital in creating and delivering value. However, the context of long, globalised supply chains and highly differentiated seafood markets results in value chain members having...
Strategy of livelihood recovery should be promoted by community participation and their shelf-lesson learnt. This research assess the integration of sustainable livelihood strategies into fisheries livelihood recovery using indicators (poverty and income), external aid role, and fishing community engagement in arranging fisheries livelihood recovery. It was conducted in Krueng Raya...
A major revision of the CFP for the period 2013-2022 was the introduction of a landing obligation (LO) of all fish caught. Contrary to f. ex. Norway, Iceland and the Faroe Islands the EU has conducted a regime where it was forbidden to keep fish below a certain size on...
The implementation of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and the Integrated Maritime Policy (IMP) requires scientific advice in many different fields such as marine biology, marine ecology and fishery economics. A wide range of fisheries data needed for scientific advice is collected, managed and made available by the Member States...
Proceedings of the Eighteenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, held July 11-15, 2016 at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Center (AECC), Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
In furtherance to the on-going studies on what is responsible for the fatty acid composition of the most widely cultured fish (Clarias gariepinus) in Nigeria, this work see to evaluate the comparative study of the cage cultured and captured catfish in brackish water of Ibeju-lekki area of Lagos State. Nigeria....