In 2011 the FAO Committee on Fisheries tasked FAO with the development of an international instrument in the form of guidelines for securing sustainable small-scale fisheries (SSF Guidelines). The SSF Guidelines will facilitate the empowerment and mobilization of stakeholders to promote change towards sustainable small-scale fisheries and hence facilitate the...
“Gender equality thinking should not focus just on the numbers of women and men in fish
supply chains”, said Gifty Anane-Taabeah (Ghana), the final panelist on Overcoming Gender
Equalities in Fish Supply Chains. The panel and two presentation sessions (Markets and Value
Chains for Small Aquaculture Enterprises and Looking at...
Small pelagic fishery is one of the socio-economically important fisheries in Morocco. In 2010, it accounts for more than 80% of the total landing weight, corresponding to approximately 0.17 billion €. Considering this fishery’s large contributions to employment, trade, transportation and processing industry, sustainable development of this fishing sector is...
This paper analyses the management strategy that was adopted by a local fishers organisation in order to promote a restocking/sea-ranching program concerning a small-scale shellfish fishery, the scallop fishery of the bay of Brest (France). Two main topics are addressed: space management and access regulation, in a context dominated by...
This paper identifies economic institutions related to the small-scale craft fishery in southern Sri Lanka, and assesses their importance for the livelihood of the fisher households as well as for resource conservation. Income from small-scale craft fishing is generally uncertain because of seasonality and uncertainty of the marine fish resource,...
Being a country located in the west of BIEN DONG (the South China Sea) with more than 3,260 km of shore line, about 3,000 large and small islands, more than 100 estuaries and about one million km 2 of EEZ, Vietnam is considered as a country in rich of marine...
Are Marine Protected Areas positive for adjacent fisheries? This is a study of the technical efficiency of small-scale trawlers in Nha Trang, Vietnam following establishment of Nha Trang Bay Marine Protected Area (NTB-MPA) that imposed a trawl ban to protect marine biodiversity and regenerate fish stocks. Data were collected through...
This paper addresses to a comparative approach of long term changes in the characteristics of marine fisheries at a regional scale, in three ecosystems: up-welling, tropical and temperate. The South Moroccan
continental shelf, under the influence of the Canary current, where up-wellings take place, is the most productive part of...
Developing country producers represent more than 80 % of total world fish supply and 50% of exports. A large part of this comes from small-scale producers in capture fisheries and aquaculture. In the discussion of the future role of the small-scale sector the debate has often focused on how the...
In this paper we develop an index of economic vulnerability which we use conjointly with a more
conventional measure of income poverty to explore the different dimensions of poverty (transient, chronic, vulnerability) that affect fishing communities in developing countries. We illustrate the potential uses of this method with cross-sectoral data...