Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission

Fishery livelihoods

This is a curated collection of technical documents that are relevant tolivelihoods in fisheries and aquaculture in the Asia-Pacific region, with particulalr emphaisis on small-scale fisheries.
2013

The sharing of management responsibility and authority between local communities and government over fisheries resources can play a major role in their improvement. The Regional Fisheries Livelihoods Programme for South and Southeast Asia (RFLP) funded by Spain and implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has sought to establish mechanisms and build capacity for co-management in Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, TimorLeste and Viet Nam. This paper highlights some...

2013

This case study presents an overview of the context, details the RFLP intervention, gives the results, implementation problems, and recommendations and key lessons learned of RFLP supported crab bank to enhance resource management and livelihood option for coastal communes of Cambodia.

2013

This case study presents an overview of the context, details the RFLP intervention, gives the results, implementation problems, and recommendations and key lessons learned from the RFLP experience of procuring and donating patrol boats to Fisheries Associations in two different communes of Thua Thien Hue province of Vietnam.