Looming clouds: The Dense fumes of fishmeal factories in the Gambia are like dark clouds obscuring the future of women in the country’s fisheries

Gorez, Beatrice and Saine, Dawda Foday (2021) Looming clouds: The Dense fumes of fishmeal factories in the Gambia are like dark clouds obscuring the future of women in the country’s fisheries. Yemaya (64). pp. 4-6. ISSN 0973-1156

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Abstract

In the Gambia, 10 percent of the 2.2 million inhabitants derive their livelihoods from fisheries, with activities concentrated in the artisanal fishing communities of Kartong, Gunjur Sanyang Tanji, Brufut, Bakau and Old Jeshwang. In these fishing villages, brightly painted fishing canoes that use entangling gillnets, hook and line, traps and long lines bring ashore their daily catch. Not far from the landing site, hundreds of women fish processors, are sun drying small pelagic like sardinella and bonga in racks or smoking them in open ovens, fuelled by locally-found wood or palm tree branches.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.YEM564
Keywords:	Yemaya, ICSF, Africa, Gambia, Women, Fish Meal, Livelihoods, Fishing Communities, Small-scale Fisheries
Subjects:	Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Jeeva ICSF Rajan
Date Deposited:	23 Dec 2021 04:55
Last Modified:	26 Mar 2022 03:58
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/7404

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