Small-scale fisheries provide livelihoods and food security to millions of women and men around the word. They make important contribution to the local and national economy, as well as represent diverse value, cultural identity and heritage of many coastal communities.
This book is another wake-up call to countries around the world and especially to the developing countries whose millions of livelihoods depend on small-scale fisheries, to react to the need of implementing the SSF Guidelines in their own jurisdictions.
This e-book is an exceptionally comprehensive exploration of small-scale fisheries in Canada. It includes a tapestry of narratives, perspectives, and research that spans across the country and along its coasts. The diverse voices in this volume illuminate the profound impact of Canadian small-scale fisheries on the social, cultural, and economic fabric of inshore and coastal communities, and their pivotal role as key stewards of Canada’s aquatic ecosystems.
This volume, consisting of essays, recipes, stories, and reflections contributed by members of the Dried Fish Matters partnership, provides a commentary on why dried fish matters – to us as researchers, to the communities in which dried fish is produced and consumed, and to the gastronomic heritage of humanity.
More to Sea is a project and book by Dutch marine governance graduate Mariëlle Klein Lankhorst. After her studies she travelled through Europe in her little marine blue car Babet to interview small-scale fishers.
The Portrait of Small-Scale Fishers in the Philippines’ is an amazing collection of stories about small-scale fishers who make a living from fishing and fishing related activities across the Philippines.
This book will provide a transdisciplinary assessment of multiple countries’ legal and policy frameworks vis-à-vis the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication
Social Wellbeing and the Values of Small-scale Fisheries D. Johnson, T. Acott, N. Stacey, J. Urquhart (Eds.) MARE publication series, Vol. 17 To order the book, click here. This book
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.
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
This special issue explores the importance of small-scale fisheries to food systems and food security at local, regional, and global levels.
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).
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.
This article synthesizes the main findings from the special issue “Enhancing ecosystem stewardship in small-scale fisheries”, in which contributors explored ecosystem stewardship in three dimensions: impacts, monitoring, and stewardship.