Meeting the challenge: This article addresses how action and research can be used to make fisheries policies more gender-sensitive and what challenges are involved

Williams, Meryl J. (2008) Meeting the challenge: This article addresses how action and research can be used to make fisheries policies more gender-sensitive and what challenges are involved. Yemaya (28). pp. 2-3. ISSN 0973-1156

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Abstract

Thousands of seasonal fish products are produced by millions of fishworkers, many of them women. Fish trade is booming; fish farming is growing fast; fish prices were escalating well before other food prices rose; fish sustainability is a hot topic; and fuel prices threaten fishing profits. Power and authority is concentrated in the larger companies, the owners of larger fleets and the well-organized fishing countries. It has always been apparently held by men.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.YEM257
Keywords:	Yemaya, ICSF, Women, Fisheries Policy, Trade, Exports, Gender, Small-scale Fisheries
Subjects:	Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Jeeva ICSF Rajan
Date Deposited:	23 Sep 2021 05:11
Last Modified:	29 Mar 2022 04:17
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/456

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