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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...
Resource Type:: Other

Creator:: García del Hoyo, Juan José and Jiménez-Toribio, Ramón
Abstract:: There has been significant growth in the catches of bluefin tuna in the Atlantic Ocean and especially in the Mediterranean Sea for the last decade due to the expansion of fattening farms which export their production to Japan. There has been an increase in catches due to strong demand and,...
Resource Type:: Research Paper

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...
Resource Type:: Other

Creator:: Henry, François, Mbaye, Lamine, and Rojat, Dominique
Abstract:: The artisanal fishing sector is very active in Senegal, providing 75% of total catch and major contributions to food supply, employment and exports. Artisanal fishing is spread along the coastline and involves different groups of migrants or sedentary fishermen using various fishing gears and techniques. Resources are heavily exploited and...
Resource Type:: Conference Proceeding

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...
Resource Type:: Other

Creator:: Fasina, Oluwatosin and Mafimisebi, Taiwo Ejiola
Abstract:: Despite the global clamour for the eradication of child labour in agriculture, children in developing countries continue to be prominent actors in the fisheries sector though their contribution is unrecorded in the national income accounts of many countries. The study examined the involvement of children in artisanal fisheries in Ondo...
Resource Type:: Research Paper

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...
Resource Type:: Other

Creator:: Henichart, Laura-Mars, Lesueur, Marie, Fontelle, Guy, Boude, Jean-Pierre, and Ropars, Carole
Abstract:: While French marine fisheries must cope with increasing difficulties, the concept of multifunctionality of fisheries (as previously observed in agriculture) is emerging through a diversification of activities. Indeed, fishers resort to alternatives in order to sustain their activity by calling on new ways to interact with environment, institutional players, scientists,...
Resource Type:: Research Paper

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...
Resource Type:: Other

Creator:: Villasante, Sebastian and Rodriguez, Gonzalo
Abstract:: Ecosystems are one of the most productive fishing grounds in the world, with important commercial and valuable fish stocks. However, overfishing, IUU activities, discards, habitat destruction and alteration of the biogeochemical conditions of the ecosystem combined with an increase in fish demand continue to drive fisheries to an alarming situation....
Resource Type:: Conference Proceeding

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