Sri Lanka: Outside the net
The lack of recognition by the state continues to cast women in fishing outside the net in Sri Lanka. 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.
Title of publication: Yemaya ICSF's Newsletter on Gender and Fisheries
Issue: 57
Page range: 2-3
Author: Gayathri Lokuge and Chandima Arambepola
Organization: International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Year: 2018
Country/ies: Sri Lanka
Geographical coverage: Asia and the Pacific
Type: Newsletter article
Full text available at: https://aquadocs.org/bitstream/handle/1834/39671/Yemaya_57_SriLanka.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Content language: English