Fisheries
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- Gender plays a crucial role in Mekong fisheries conservation by ensuring equitable resource management, enhancing community resilience, and improving livelihoods. Women contribute significantly to fish processing, marketing, and management but often face barriers to decision-making. Integrating gender-inclusive approaches strengthens conservation efforts by leveraging diverse knowledge, promoting sustainable practices, and ensuring fair benefits for all stakeholders. Recognizing and empowering women in fisheries governance leads to more effective conservation, improved food security, and resilient fishing communities.
- The CGIAR Initiative on Aquatic Foods aimed to build the resilience of aquatic food systems and unlock their full potential by scaling research and innovations. Working closely with research partners in fisheries and aquaculture, civil society, industry, and governments, the Initiative contributed to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from the production of aquatic foods, and enhance ecological and social resilience through development and dissemination of improved fish strains, better management practices, integrated fish-rice production systems, and fish-friendly irrigation systems.
- This technical brief provides an overview of the formal policy context of Ghana’s fisheries with a focus on aquaculture, which can be traced back to the 1950s (Abban et al. 2009). Despite the focus on inland fisheries, the policy architecture tends to bring both marine and inland fisheries under the samebroader legislative frameworks. Formal policies entail governance arrangements such as laws, policies, plans and regulations. Informal policies are based on customs accepted by local traditional authorities; such local practices may or may not be accepted by formal authorities or the state (FAO et al. 2023).
- This review report provides an overview of Ghana's fisheries and aquaculture sectors. The report summarizes and highlights the formal policies and governance structures related to aquaculture, inland fisheries, and marine fisheries in Ghana. The report identifies the legal frameworks and strategies governing these sectors and the plans and regulations in place. The aquaculture sector is an expanding subsector that has greater potential to increase and meet the increased demand for fish in Ghana, which is currently being met through imports. The report emphasizes that fisheries resources in Ghana are derived from marine, inland, and aquaculture sources. It notes a decline in marine fish production but a steady increase in inland and aquaculture fisheries production. The National Aquaculture Development Plan aims to further increase the market share of commercially farmed fish.
- This booklet highlights the outcomes and lessons learned from the project enhancing Community Fisheries Management in Cambodia. A significant achievement is the shift to a more women-led management committee, strengthening leadership and improving community engagement. Peer-to-peer learning played a crucial role, fostering knowledge exchange and promoting sustainable fisheries practices. The results and new knowledge generated by this project are not only relevant to Cambodia but also provide a basis for replication globally. These insights offer valuable strategies for scaling up effective community fisheries management, contributing to sustainability and enhancing local and global fisheries resource management efforts.
- Catch monitoring involves collecting data on site location, habitat types, key species, land use, seasonality, and climate change impacts. It assesses livelihoods, governance, co-management, organization, capacity, resources, and logistics. Fishery management examines the primary fishery’s status, actions, and community perceptions. Quarterly monitoring includes setting criteria for sites, gear, fishing frequency, site validation, sampling, and data analysis. Data on fish species, diversity, and habitats is collected to improve management. Trends and changes in fish species, influenced by community actions or environmental factors, are evaluated using traditional and modern methods. Capacity building empowers communities to manage fisheries sustainably with NGO collaboration.
- Community Fisheries (CFi) in the Mekong region face challenges including low capacity, language barriers, insufficient resources, and limited knowledge-sharing opportunities. To address this, a Learning Hub was established, enabling peer-to-peer learning. Skilled CFi members shared expertise in fish ecology and management with 12 CFis, fostering collaboration and demonstrating best practices. For instance, Ksach Leav and Koh Khnier CFis redesigned their conservation zones, reducing them to 35% of the original size to balance conservation and subsistence fishing. Supported by WorldFish and CEPA, the Hub enhanced CFi capacity and promoted sustainable fisheries management, showcasing the effectiveness of collaborative and adaptive approaches.
- Asia–Africa BlueTech Superhighway (AABS) will help Tanzania address its fisheries and aquaculture challenges by leveraging South–South collaboration to improve sustainability, resilience and prosperity in coastal communities. Through evidence-based models and partnerships, AABS will enhance the adaptive capacities of small-scale fish workers and farmers, mitigating the effects of climate change and increasing the sustainability of fish production. By focusing on Tanzania’s vulnerable coastal regions, the initiative will not only support the government’s goals but also ensure that the livelihoods of these communities are more secure and equitable.
- In Mozambique, AABS will help to address fisheries and aquaculture challenges by leveraging South–South collaboration to improve sustainability, resilience and prosperity in coastal communities. Through evidence-based models and partnerships, AABS will enhance the adaptive capacities of small-scale fish workers and farmers, mitigating the effects of climate change and increasing the sustainability of fish production. By focusing on Mozambique’s vulnerable coastal regions, the initiative will not only support the government’s goals but also ensure that the livelihoods of these communities are more secure and equitable.
- Asia–Africa BlueTech Superhighway (AABS) will help Kenya address its fisheries and aquaculture challenges by leveraging South–South collaboration to improve sustainability, resilience and prosperity in coastal communities. Through evidence-based models and partnerships, AABS will enhance the adaptive capacities of small-scale fish workers and farmers, mitigating the effects of climate change and increasing the sustainability of fish production. By focusing on Kenya’s vulnerable coastal regions, the initiative will not only support the government’s goals but also ensure that the livelihoods of these communities are more secure and equitable.
- Asia–Africa BlueTech Superhighway (AABS) will help Bangladesh address its fisheries and aquaculture challenges by leveraging South–South collaboration to improve sustainability, resilience and prosperity in coastal communities. Through evidence-based models and partnerships, AABS will enhance the adaptive capacities of small-scale fish workers and farmers, mitigating the effects of climate change and increasing the sustainability of fish production. By focusing on Bangladesh’s vulnerable coastal regions, the initiative will not only support the government’s goals but also ensure that the livelihoods of these communities are more secure and equitable
- Transition to unhealthy food choices and lifestyles is causing health problems for Solomon Islanders. Due to these circumstances, a tok stori was organized in 2023 to start addressing the following question: “what does a vision for a healthy and safe food system comprise?” (Tutuo et al. 2023). To follow up on these discussions, WorldFish and the Kastom Gaden Association (KGA) organized a second series of forums called Island Food Systems in Transition: Strengthening Indigenous Food Systems in Solomon Islands. The forums were hosted in Gizo, Western Province, on June 13, 2024, and in Buala, Isabel Province, on August 14, 2024 . These forums brought together rural actors and key stakeholders (i) to talk about traditional farming and aquatic foods under a nutrition-sensitive approach and (ii) to listen to ideas about what the future of food systems in Solomon Islands could look like at the provincial level.
- Welcome to our interactive R programming course, specifically designed for small-scale fisheries data analysis. Learn through practical tutorials that run directly in your browser - no installation needed. Start with R fundamentals and progress at your own pace, practicing each concept with interactive exercises. Each tutorial builds on previous ones, helping you develop practical skills for analyzing your fisheries data. Browse the tutorials to begin your journey in R programming for fisheries analysis.
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- This short video tells the story of the successful cultivation of 200 Rahu fish ponds in Kan Su Village. With their main activity being agricultural, fish farming is recognized as their small-scale business.
- Dive into the incredible journey of Small Indigenous Fish Species (SIS)—tiny yet mighty contributors to better health, nutrition, and sustainable aquaculture in India. For centuries, these little fish have nourished communities, providing essential nutrients like iron, calcium, omega-3 fatty acids, and vitamins. Once a cornerstone of family diets, SIS gradually disappeared due to the rise of large-scale aquaculture, leaving a nutritional void in households.
- Discover the power of Small Indigenous Fish Species (SIS) like Mola, Pool Barb, and Swamp Barb! Packed with essential nutrients such as iron, calcium, zinc, and vitamins, these tiny fish play a crucial role in combating malnutrition—especially for women and children. Unfortunately, due to overfishing and pollution, SIS populations have been declining, leaving communities in need of sustainable solutions. In this video, we guide you through the 8-Step Guidelines for Induced Breeding and Mass Seed Production of Mola, Pool Barb, and Swamp Barb, a simple yet impactful method that empowers rural farmers.
- This document compiles a collection of key materials, including Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) materials, training manuals, guidelines, policies, strategies, and reports, developed and implemented by various Food Security and Nutrition-Sensitive Projects in Cambodia over the past 20 years. These existing resources outline practical approaches and methodologies for food security and nutrition-sensitive interventions, offering valuable insights and strategies that can be adapted for future relevant projects.
- Basurto, X.; Gutierrez, N.; Franz, N.; del Mar Mancha-Cisneros, M.; Gorelli, G.; Aguion, A.; Smith, S.F.; Harper, S.; Mills, D.J.; Nico, G.; Tilley, A.; Vannuccini, S.; Virdin, J.; Westlund, L.; Allison, E.; Anderson, C.M.; Baio, A.; Cinner, J.; Fabinyi, M.; Hicks, C.; Kolding, J.; Melnychuk, M.C.; Ovando, D.; Robinson, J.; Thilsted, S.H.Sustainable development aspires to “leave no one behind”1. Even so, limited attention has been paid to small-scale fisheries (SSF) and their importance in eradicating poverty, hunger and malnutrition. Through a collaborative and multidimensional data-driven approach, we have estimated that SSF provide at least 40% (37.3 million tonnes) of global fisheries catches and 2.3 billion people with, on average, 20% of their dietary intake across six key micronutrients essential for human health. Globally, the livelihood of 1 in every 12 people, nearly half of them women, depends at least partly on small-scale fishing, in total generating 44% (US$77.2 billion) of the economic value of all fisheries landed. Regionally, Asian SSF provide fish, support livelihoods and supply nutrition to the largest number of people. Relative to the total capture of the fisheries sector (comprising large-scale and small-scale fisheries), across all regions, African SSF supply the most catch and nutrition, and SSF in Oceania improve the most livelihoods. Maintaining and increasing these multidimensional SSF contributions to sustainable development requires targeted and effective actions, especially increasing the engagement of fisherfolk in shared management and governance. Without management and governance focused on the multidimensional contributions of SSF, the marginalization of millions of fishers and fishworkers will worsen.
- Cambodia has experienced consistent economic growth and poverty reduction in recent years. However, rural populations continue to face significant challenges, particularly in securing reliable water sources for domestic use, agriculture, and overall livelihoods. One practical solution is the integration of small earthen ponds within household premises, transforming them into productive assets that enhance resilience against climate change. These multi-purpose ponds provide critical benefits. They serve as a water source for household consumption, animal watering, and home gardening. During the dry season, when droughts are frequent and water scarcity threatens food production, these ponds become even more valuable. Beyond individual benefits, these ponds contribute to the broader ecosystem by supporting biodiversity and integrating with existing agricultural practices. As Cambodia continues to develop, investing in such community-driven solutions can help rural populations adapt to environmental challenges while ensuring long-term sustainability and economic stability.