Fishery barometer is a follow up survey that measures and analyses simultaneously consumers' and producers' opinions about fish products, fisheries and production environments. The barometer also establishes a platform for a traditional business survey of the economic outlook for fishery enterprises. The fishery barometer aims to collect data that are...
This paper intends to ascertain whether the micro-commercial initiative of Marine and Coastal Management Department (M&CM) introduced in 2001 is contributing to the sustainable livelihoods of fishers in the community of Ocean View. Ocean View is located in the greater Cape Town metropole and was created by the Group Areas...
Quality safety traceability system has adopted by most fishery enterprises as an important part of the strategic management. As the consequence, the end product is supposed to be higher. That consumers whether to accept has a direct impact on system successful implementation. This paper proposes a framework to research consumer...
This study evaluated the Philippine tilapia supply chain including the roles of key actors, logistical issues, external influences, and transaction flows among market levels. It identified improvement areas and provided recommendations for the industry. Key players include hatcheries, nurseries, commercial/small-scale farmers, consumers and institutional buyers. Pampanga, Batangas and Laguna are...
“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...
The author gives the background for the importance of the value chain network and the challenges of sustaining this network in developing nations. She presents the context for the papers and presentations in this special session on aquaculture and small fisheries markets and value chains with focus on gender.
Capture fisheries and aquaculture in freshwater bodies play a very important role and is considered to have great potential for augmenting fish production as well as diversification of livelihoods in both Cambodia and Vietnam. In Cambodia, inland fisheries remain primary importance in the fisheries sector, while aquaculture is more important...
A study was carried out to assess production performance and value chain of Nile tilapia grown in ponds of small-scale farmers in Morogoro region, Tanzania. Information was collected through individual interviews of 30 fish farmers. The main reasons for culturing fish were provision of animal protein food for home consumption...