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Towards sustainable development of small-scale fisheries in the Philippines: Experience and lessons learned from eight regional sites
Type: Brief
The focus of this paper is on the governance of small-scale or municipal fisheries in the Philippines in light of the critical role they play in the livelihoods of coastal communities and in the nation as a whole. The ...
Hidden harvest: The global contribution of capture fisheries
Type: Report
The important contribution of fi sheries to human well-being is frequently underestimated. This report highlights that contribution. The report focuses on small-scale fi sheries and developing countries because the livelihoods ...
A framework to assess national level vulnerability from the perspective of food security: The case of coral reef fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Measuring the vulnerability of human populations to environmental change is increasingly being used to develop appropriate adaptation policies and management plans for different economic sectors. We developed a national-level ...
Profitability of small-scale fisheries in Elmina, Ghana
Type: Journal Article
In order to achieve sustainable fishing livelihoods in coastal communities, data on profitability of small-scale fisheries relative to fish species caught and gear types used by fishermen is required as part of a broader ...
Navigating change: Second-generation challenges of small-scale fisheries co-management in the Philippines and Vietnam
Type: Journal Article
Early efforts to apply the concept of fisheries co-management in Southeast Asia focused primarily on building the effectiveness of local management institutions and advocating the merits of the approach so that it would ...
Uganda and Malawi field pilots of proposed LSMS fisheries module: summary report
Type: Report
While an overwhelming majority of sub-Saharan African countries exhibit serious weaknesses in statistics pertaining to crop and livestock sectors, the deficiencies in terms of nationallyrepresentative data on the fishery ...
Rights-based fisheries governance: from fishing rights to human rights
Type: Journal Article
In the last twenty years, policy prescriptions for addressing the global crisis in fisheries have centred on strengthening fisheries governance through clarifying exclusive individual or community rights of access to fishery ...
Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management (EAFM): A Solomon Islands policy review
Type: Report
The Solomon Islands is one of the CT6 countries that have signed on to the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (CCRF) (FAO 2003a). In doing so, they have agreed to implement ...
Wealth, rights, and resilience: An agenda for governance reform in small-scale fisheries
Type: Journal Article
The diversity of social, ecological and economic characteristics of smallscale fisheries in developing countries means that context-specific assessments are required to understand and address shortcomings in their governance. ...
Crab fisheries in Cambodia and the development of crab banks
Type: Report
The crab (swimming crab; Portunus pelagicus) fishery in coastal Cambodia appears to have declined in recent years due to over-fishing and a growth in the number of fishermen, but remains an important source of income for ...