Turning the tide (Part 1): This is the first part of the summary of a paper that explores the key developments and trends that can be identified in the literature on women in the fisheries in the last three decades. The Next issue of Yemaya will carry the concluding section

Biswas, Nilanjana (2011) Turning the tide (Part 1): This is the first part of the summary of a paper that explores the key developments and trends that can be identified in the literature on women in the fisheries in the last three decades. The Next issue of Yemaya will carry the concluding section. Yemaya (37). pp. 8-11. ISSN 0973-1156

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Abstract

Of the 43.5 million people around the world directly employed in fishing and aquaculture, ninety per cent are small-scale fishers. The majority (eighty six per cent) live in Asia; most under conditions of great poverty. For every person directly employed in fishing or fish farming, it is estimated that four others are employed in post- or pre-harvest work. Most countries however do not consider the work that these four others do—work such as fi sh processing and selling, transportation, net and gear making, boat building, fuel supply, engine repair—to be productive or contributing to the national economy. Thus, in 2010, the labour of about 174 million people across the world remained largely invisible in fishery statistics and was either unpaid or insufficiently paid for. Women made up the bulk of this figure.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.YEM321
Keywords:	Yemaya, ICSF, Women, Labour, Research, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Child Labour (CEDAW), Empowerment, Discrimination, Small-scale Fisheries
Subjects:	Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Chitti Babu ICSF
Date Deposited:	20 Sep 2021 05:28
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2022 05:40
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/712

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