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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Small-scale fisheries account for at least 40 percent of global fisheries catch, 90 percent of the people employed along capture fisheries value chains operate in small-scale fisheries, and 45 million women participate in small-scale fisheries globally. The past few years have brought warnings from policymakers and resource managers about risks...
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...
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,...
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...
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....
To analyse and project the impact of structural, technological and political changes on food production, the Mexican Government, through the Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA), is undertaking the analysis of typical production units TPU in the agricultural and livestock sectors, by means of adapting simulation...
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...
Small-scale fisheries (SSF) around the world face many challenges. They are a highly dynamic, important sector for coastal communities in developing nations, playing a critical role in poverty alleviation and food security. SSFs generally have few resources to ensure their long-term sustainability. They are often fished and managed locally and...
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...
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...
Local community in the Mekong Delta is said to be “fish eating society” where 70% of their animal protein relies on fish products. The Mekong Delta contributes more than 60% of total aquaculture production and 40% of total wild fish catch of Vietnam. Among a large number of fishing boats,...
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...
The tsunami waves that hit Sri Lanka on the 26th December 2004 have decimated coastal fishing communities. Fishery in Sri Lanka is largely small scale and they are among the poorest communities in the country. Fishers have not only been affected by loss of lives or substantial damage to their...
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....