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Creator:: Sharma, Chandrika
Abstract:: Millions of people across the world, and particularly in Asia, depend on small-scale fisheries for a livelihood. Small-scale fisheries contribute in significant ways to employment, income and food security, and in many parts of the world small-scale fisheries constitute the backbone of remote, rural economies. However, several problems, within and...
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Creator:: Nieto Conde, Fernando
Abstract:: Artisanal fishermen are the great unknown of fisheries. Being the more numerous segment, is the more abandoned community by managers. In a generalized context of overcapacity and taking into account the dwindling state of resources, the situation seems to be paradoxical since artisanal métiers are considered to be the less...
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Creator:: Cherrett, Nia, Pemsl, Diemuth, and Evans, Louisa
Abstract:: Considerable financial and political investments in fisheries comanagement in the past 20 years have disseminated the concept across the developed and developing world. Co-management is now established as a mainstream approach to small-scale fisheries governance. This paper reports on a meta-analysis to assess the overall impact of fisheries comanagement in...
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Creator:: Ramos, Jorge, dos Santos, Miguel N., Whitmarsh, David, and Monteiro, Carlos C.
Abstract:: In southeast Portugal, some coastal fishing communities have experienced intensified competition for harvestable stocks, and this impacted with some severity on small-scale fishermen who are especially dependent on fishing for their livelihoods. In the last decade or so, various "structural instruments" have been created in order to address this particular...
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Creator:: Larkin, Sherry and Adams, Charles
Abstract:: Fishing activities within the Galapagos Marine Reserve (GMR) are restricted to small-scale levels by national law. The fishing sector has relied on just two fisheries, sea cucumber and spiny lobster, and a strong Asian export market. Despite a series of input and output controls and a co-management scheme, stocks have...
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Creator:: Allison, Edward
Abstract:: This session proposes to review and critically discuss the potential for conceptual approaches addressing human and economic development in the context of the fisheries sector. Recent research, informed by a wide range of frameworks in development studies, is greatly increasing our understanding of the lives and livelihoods of fishing people...
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Creator:: Gilbert, Ben and Yeo, Bee Hong
Abstract:: We compare the productivity of technology adopters to non-adopters using a cross-sectional survey of artisanal gillnet vessels on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Technologies include cell phones, GPS, sonar, and mechanical winches for hauling nets. Stochastic frontier analysis is used to measure differences in production frontiers and technical efficiency...
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Creator:: Lionel, Reynal and Guyader, Olivier
Abstract:: Since the 1990s, moored Fishing Aggregating Devices (FADs) have had a sharp success in the Lesser Antilles and beyond, because they make it possible for small nondecked fishing units to reach, at low costs, offshore resources which they could do only seasonally or resources normally accessible by large scale vessels...
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Creator:: Rathnaweera, Erwin and Gunasekara, Jayantha
Abstract:: It is recognized that small-scale fishing communities are grappled with an array of problems, including overfishing of fishing resources, lack of alternative sources of employment, rapid population growth, displacement in coastal areas due to industrial development and tourism, pollution and environmental degradation etc.. Discussions on the issue of overfishing in...
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Creator:: Kanthiah, Pazhani
Abstract:: Small-Scale Fisheries constitute 81 per cent of the total fisheries sector in India.It has been playing a pivotal role in providing employment, income and nutritional security to a vast majority of India's population. But, this sector remains neglected and the fisherfolk who depend on it remain socially and economically backward....
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