Browsing Resilient small-scale fisheries by Issue Date
Now showing items 841-860 of 1285
-
Porter un nouvel éclairage sur les captures non visibles: La contribution de la pêche artisanale au développement durable
(2018)Type: BriefEn 2012, la FAO, la Banque mondiale et WorldFish ont publié une étude Hidden Harvest: The global contribution of capture fisheries. Pour soutenir la dynamique croissante de mise en oeuvre des Directives SSF, et en réponse ... -
Transdisciplinary engagement to address transboundary challenges for small-scale fishers
(2018)Type: Book ChapterSmall-scale fisheries and their governance are increasingly affected by natural, social, and political issues that originate outside their immediate control and locality. This chapter explores how researchers, non-governmental ... -
Balancing between livelihood and biodiversity conservation: a model study on gear selectivity for harvesting small indigenous fishes in southern Bangladesh
(2018)Type: Journal ArticleThis study has determined a suitable mesh size for small indigenous fish species (SIS) harvesting and has also developed a new gill net operation technique taking into consideration of aquatic biodiversity conservation, ... -
Be croc wise
(2018)Type: PosterThis poster shows the various ways of avoiding attack from crocodiles. -
Priority actions for dugong and seagrass conservation in Solomon Islands
(2018)Type: BriefDugongs (Dugon dugon) are seagrass community specialists that inhabit warm coastal and island areas from tropical to subtropical Indo-West Pacific waters. They feed primarily on seagrass. In August 2018, dugongs became ... -
Aquatic habitats in the Ayeyarwady Basin and their biodiversity
(2018)Type: ReportThis document provides a description of the general freshwater habitats found throughout the Ayeyarwady Basin. With a wide range of riverine and wetland habitats and high levels of species biodiversity, the Ayeyarwady River ... -
Reimagining large-scale open-water fisheries governance through adaptive comanagement in hilsa shad sanctuaries
(2018)Type: Journal ArticleAlmost a half million fishers in Bangladesh are predominantly reliant on the hilsa shad (Tenualosa ilisha) fishery in the Meghna River and estuarine ecosystem. This paper adopts a broadened concept of social-ecological ... -
Fisheries in the Ayeyarwady Basin
(2018)Type: ReportThe Ayeyarwady State of the Basin Assessment (SOBA) is one of the major knowledge outputs of the Ayeyarwady Integrated River Basin Management (AIRBM) Project prepared by Hydro-Informatics Centre (HIC). SOBA aims to inform ... -
Can agricultural research and extension be used to challenge the processes of exclusion and marginalisation?
(2018)Type: Journal ArticleThis paper examines if and how agricultural researchers and extension officers can see, understand and change processes that exclude some people and influence marginalisation. We used participatory action research (PAR) ... -
Intersectorality in the governance of inland fisheries
(2018)Type: Journal ArticleOne of the defining characteristics of inland fisheries is that they are closely impacted by other essential human activities that rely on the same fresh or brackish water ecosystems, such as hydroelectricity generation ... -
From happy hour to hungry hour: Logging, fisheries and food security in Malaita, Solomon Islands
(2018)Type: ReportThe Solomon Islands Government (SIG) has followed a logging-based development strategy for the past three decades. Despite widespread acknowledgment of the unsustainable nature of logging throughout the country and increasing ... -
Supporting community-based resource management in Solomon Islands: The role of provincial governments
(2018)Type: BriefRural communities in Solomon Islands rely heavily on coastal fisheries for food and income. However, coral reefs, mangroves and seagrass are degrading in many areas because of overharvesting, pollution and unsustainable ... -
Productivity and coastal fisheries biomass yields of the northeast coastal waters of the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem
(2018)Type: Journal ArticleThis paper describes the current marine fisheries situation in the northeast sector of the Bay of Bengal, ninety percent of which corresponds to Myanmar's EEZ and ten percent to Bangladesh. With the exception of the research ... -
Wealthy countries dominate industrial fishing
(2018)Type: Journal ArticleThe patterns by which different nations share global fisheries influence outcomes for food security, trajectories of economic development, and competition between industrial and small-scale fishing. We report patterns of ... -
Gender and marine protected areas: a case study of Danajon Bank, Philippines
(2018)Type: Journal ArticleIn this paper, we examine the role of gender in community-based management of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Central Philippines. MPAs are a common conservation and fisheries management tool in this area, but the ... -
Narrative assemblages for power-balanced coastal and marine governance. Tara Bandu as a tool for community-based fisheries co-management in Timor-Leste
(2018)Type: Journal ArticlePoverty alleviation and resource governance are inextricably related. Mainstream resource management has been typically criticized by social scientists for the inherent power imbalances between fishery managers and small-scale ... -
Hearing, counting and empowering women: GAF7 conference showcases gender equality progress and challenges
(2018)Type: BlogBlogpost about some of the key topics and outcomes from the Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries conference -
How to capture small-scale fisheries’ many contributions to society? – Introducing the ‘Value-Contribution Matrix’ and applying it to the case of a swimming crab fishery in South Korea
(2018)Type: Book ChapterTo facilitate a systematic and comprehensive capturing of small-scale fisheries’ societal contributions, this chapter proposes a ‘value-contribution matrix’ and applies it to the case of a swimming crab fishery in South ... -
Counting the fish eaten rather than the fish caught
(2018)Type: OtherThis is a commentary on a recent study by Fluet-Chouinard et al. that assesses fish catches by counting how many fish are eaten. -
Consultation of fishers on fishery resources and livelihoods in the Ayeyarwady Basin
(2018)Type: ReportThe Ayeyarwady State of the Basin Assessment (SOBA) is one of the major knowledge outputs of the Ayeyarwady Integrated River Basin Management (AIRBM) Project prepared by Hydro-Informatics Centre (HIC). SOBA aims to inform ...
