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Broadening the knowledge base of small-scale fisheries through a food systems framework: A case study of the Lake Superior Region
Type: Book Chapter
Lake Superior is the largest and northernmost of the Great Lakes of North America. It supports a diversity of wildlife and fish species, along with commercial, recreational, and Indigenous fisheries that make vital ...
Community-based, co-management for governing small-scale fisheries of the Pacific: A Solomon Islands' case study
Type: Book Chapter
The discourse on solutions to address small-scale fisheries concerns in the Pacific tends to focus heavily on community-based forms of co-management. Decentralizing governance to the community level permits responsiveness ...
Developing markets for small-scale fisheries: utilizing the value chain approach
Type: Book Chapter
This chapter describes the constraints for marketing by small-scale fisheries and the steps for market development, including stabilization of the fish supply, setting up cooperatives, enhancing relations in the value chain ...
Poverty reduction as a means to enhance resilience in small-scale fisheries
Type: Book Chapter
This chapter examines the multiple dimensions of poverty and related 'state of being' such as vulnerability and social exclusion, with reference to several important aspects of vulnerability, including gender, climate ...
Learning and adaptation: the role of fisheries comanagement in building resilient social-ecological systems
Type: Book Chapter
This chapter focuses on how robust self-organizations can be formed within fisheries co-management systems. Over the last 30 years, co-management has been increasingly advocated as a blueprint solution for small-scale ...
Policy coherence with the small-scale fisheries guidelines: Analysing across scales of governance in Pacific small-scale fisheries
Type: Book Chapter
Concerns about the sustainability of small-scale fisheries, and the equitable distribution of fisheries benefits, are wide-spread within government agencies, non-government organizations, and rural fishing communities ...
Transdisciplinary engagement to address transboundary challenges for small-scale fishers
Type: Book Chapter
Small-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 ...
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
Type: Book Chapter
To 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 ...
Diagnosis and the management constituency of small-scale fisheries
Type: Book Chapter
The concepts and implementation of the Participatory Diagnosis and Adaptive Management (PDAM) framework for small-scale fishery development and management in developing countries are described.
Under-reported and undervalued: small-scale fisheries in the developing world
Type: Book Chapter
This chapter discusses the collection of data on small-scale fisheries in developing countries, the limitations of national data systems and progress in synthesizing collected data.