Outside the net: The Lack of recognition by the state continues to cast women in fishing outside the net in Sri Lanka

Lokuge, Gayathri and Arambepola, Chandima (2018) Outside the net: The Lack of recognition by the state continues to cast women in fishing outside the net in Sri Lanka. Yemaya (57). pp. 2-3. ISSN 0973-1156

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Abstract

While increasingly, around the globe, women’s participation in fisheries is being captured in government statistical records, the data on active fishers compiled by the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Sri Lanka is not disaggregated by sex. The underlying reasoning is that the number of women contributing to the fisheries sector is so low that it does not warrant such data disaggregation. However, primary data collected for doctoral research by the first author of this article showed that there were a sizeable 596 women engaged in fisheries in Trincomalee, one of the main fish producing districts located in the eastern province of the country. Therefore, exclusion of women from government enumeration deepens their invisibility in the sector.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.YEM493
Keywords:	Yemaya, ICSF, Sri Lanka, Women, Labour, Equality, Discrimination, Fish Catch, Policy, Small-scale Fisheries
Subjects:	Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Chitti Babu ICSF
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2021 05:04
Last Modified:	26 Mar 2022 06:12
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/1040

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