Our connection to life
This publication seeks to underscore
the significance of Nigeria’s small-scale
fisheries to the well-being and
economic health of the broader
society.
December 10, 2025
publications
e-books
Beyond the Ocean: The Beauty and Bounty of Inland Small-Scale Fisheries
This past World Fisheries Day, on 21st November 2025, I had the privilege of attending a global forum that brought into focus the often-overlooked inland fisheries. Organized by TBTI Global, the webinar brought together researchers, students, government officials, and representatives from various national, regional, and global organizations.
December 5, 2025
The Beauty and the Bounty at Risk: Small-Scale Fisheries of Nepal
The book ‘The Beauty and the Bounty at Risk’ is the first e-book on small-scale fisheries in Nepal, offering insights of different aspects of the small-scale fisheries such as fishing technology, socio-economics, environmental issues, and governance.
November 19, 2025
Reading Small-Scale Fisheries
As in his previous writing and the first two books, and even more so in this one, Svein brings wisdom from philosophers and big thinkers in social sciences into fisheries discourse, which helps broaden our understanding about small-scale fisheries and transform how we approach them in research, and in governance.
June 12, 2025
Call for submissions for an e-book about small-scale fisheries in Brazil
We are inviting submissions for an upcoming e-book focused on marine and inland small-scale fisheries in Brazil, which will be published in the TBTI Global Publication Series. This e-book is supported by SIANI as part of the Expert Group on Small-Scale Fisheries in Latin America.
April 16, 2025
Ocean People Inspire
The e-book features contributions from emerging and amateur writings who participated in the NL Writes Short Story Competition. The competition emphasized inclusive participation, reflection, and dialogue, while featuring mentorship, feedback, and celebration.
November 14, 2024
Books
Our connection to life
This publication seeks to underscore
the significance of Nigeria’s small-scale
fisheries to the well-being and
economic health of the broader
society.
December 10, 2025
Beyond the Ocean: The Beauty and Bounty of Inland Small-Scale Fisheries
This past World Fisheries Day, on 21st November 2025, I had the privilege of attending a global forum that brought into focus the often-overlooked inland fisheries. Organized by TBTI Global, the webinar brought together researchers, students, government officials, and representatives from various national, regional, and global organizations.
December 5, 2025
New series of essays on small-scale fisheries by Dr. Yinji Li
The Kamogawa Shuppan Publisher has started featuring Dr. Yinji Li’s series of essays on small-scale fisheries, ‘Fisheries Sustainability from the Age of 13: SMALL Protects the World’.
September 4, 2025
Article on Canada-Japan sister program: Girls Who Fish
‘Girls Who Fish’ activities are being developed in Canada and Japan to contribute to the improvement of gender issues, with the view that ‘women’ and ‘gender’ are important factors in realizing the sustainability of small-scale fisheries.
September 3, 2025
Call for submission for an upcoming e-book by TBTI Colombia
We are inviting submissions for an upcoming e-book focused on small-scale fisheries in Colombia, which will be published in the TBTI Global Publication Series. This e-book is supported by SIANI as part of the Expert Group on Small-Scale Fisheries in Latin America.
August 11, 2025
Reading Small-Scale Fisheries
As in his previous writing and the first two books, and even more so in this one, Svein brings wisdom from philosophers and big thinkers in social sciences into fisheries discourse, which helps broaden our understanding about small-scale fisheries and transform how we approach them in research, and in governance.
June 12, 2025
Journal special issues
Special Issue (Vol. 1): (En)Gendering Change in Small-scale Fisheries and Fishing Communities in a Globalized World
This special issue presents critical global topics on women and gender in fisheries, addressing intersecting issues such as labour, migration organizations, participation in the public sphere, property rights in fisheries and aquaculture, climate change, and capacity building.
March 17, 2025
Special Issue (Vol. 2): (En)Gendering Change in Small-scale Fisheries and Fishing Communities in a Globalized World
Authors in this thematic collection have gathered together voices from researchers and practitioners from around the world, with one overarching common approach of using a gender lens to examine the relationship between humans and aquatic resources.
January 1, 2020
Special Issue: Neoliberalism and global small-scale fisheries
Neoliberalism and global small-scale fisheries Edited by: Evelyn Pinkerton, TBTI ‘SSF Rights’ cluster coordinator Marine Policy, Vol. 80, p. 1-176 This special issue, global in scope, builds on a previous TBTI Special
January 1, 2020
Special Issue: Fisheries and Food Systems: Cross pollinations and synthesis, Aug. 2016
This special issue explores the importance of small-scale fisheries to food systems and food security at local, regional, and global levels.
January 1, 2020
Special Issue: Enhancing Stewardship in Latin America and Caribbean Small-Scale Fisheries
This special issue represents a unique collection of emergent and pressing issues related to small-scale fisheries in Latin America, built on the outcomes from the TBTI workshop in Curitiba, Brazil (august 2013), and the 2nd World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress in Merida, Mexico (September 2014).
January 1, 2020
Special Issue: Special Section on Neoliberalism and North American Small-Scale Fisheries
This article provides an overview of the ways in which policies of enclosure, privatization, and deregulation have unfolded in several regions of North America and discusses the consequences these processes have had for small-scale fisheries.
January 1, 2020