The present study is an update of an earlier assessment of warm-water fish farming potential in Africa, by Kapetsky (1994). The objective of this study was to assess locations and areal expanses that have potential for warm-water and temperate-water fish farming in continental Africa. The study was based on previous...

This paper explores efforts on coastal area management, more specifically in the South Asian region, and the extent to which the perspectives of actors in the fishery sector have been incorporated. It also deals with legislation of direct relevance to Integrated Coastal Area Management (ICAM).

Fishworkers’ organizations the world over are concerned about the degradation of coastal habitats vital to fishery resources. This concern was articulated in the first-ever Conference of Fishworkers and their Supporters in Rome in 1984, and, subsequently, in all the three conferences organized by ICSF since 1986. In the conference in...

The fourth in the Women in Fisheries series, this contains the report of the concluding workshop of the first phase of the Women in Fisheries programme of ICSF. Held in Rufisque, Senegal, in June 1996, the Workshop attracted 33 participants from 12 countries.

This, the third in the Women in Fisheries series, draws on reports from seven countries to arrive at an understanding of the issue of gender in fisheries. In the process, it questions traditional norms in male-dominated fishworker organizations, both in the North and in the South.

The second in the Women in Fisheries series, this contains details of women's involvement in fisheries in each of the nine maritime States of India.  This Dossier is an acknowledgement of the role women have played in sustaining coastal communities through thick and thin. It is an effort to make...

Cette étude fouillée réalisée auprès de 1157 opérateurs de la filière. En publiant cette recherche, ICSF voudrait permettre aux scientifiques et aux décideurs de mieux connaître le milieude la pêche artisanale et sa complexité. La discussion des résultats devrait aussi être source d’inspiration pour les responsables des organisations de pécheurs...

This dossier puts together documents relating to a unique Public Hearing, held at Cochin, India in June 1995, on the problems faced by women workers in India's fish processing industry. Apart from a comprehensive report on the sector, this Dossier includes transcripts of oral testimonies of some of the women...

This publication is the official record of what transpired at Cebu conference held between 2 and 7 June 1994. It is a compendium of papers, reports and special contributions on topical concerns in global fisheries management. It also contains the reports of the various working groups which tackled the conference's...

Ce dossier contient deux contributions distinctes. Elles rapportent certains résultats issus de deux recherches menées sur le terrain de la pêche sénégalaise et issues de la collaboration entre le CREDETIP (Centre de Recherche et de Développement des Technologies intermédiaires dans la Pêche) de Dakar, ONG de réflexion et de soutien...

In the last two decades prior to 1990’s a serious and severely damaging fish disease has been spreading through countries of the Asia Pacific region with dangerous consequences. Not only is this disease- now officially termed Epizootic Ulcerative Syndrome (EUS)- a scientific puzzle, it is also a worrisome social problem....

Originally, the Lome convention aimed to be the framework for genuine development cooperation between the Old Continent and its former colonies. It was an instrument which, without being a cure for all ills, provided substantial guarantees for countries that had been exhausted by years of economic, political and cultural domination...

Le Collectif international d’appui à la pêche artisanale (ICSF) a organisé à Bangkok (Thaïlande), du 22 au 27 janvier 1990, une Conférence rassemblant des scientifiques, des travailleurs de la pêche, des animateurs sociaux et des décideurs sur le thème « Évolution des pêches et avenir des travailleurs ».

Le Collectif International d’appui à la pêche artisanale  a organisé à Bangkok, Thaïlande, du 22 au 27 janvier 1990, une Conférence internationale sur le thème « Évolution globale des pêches et avenir des travailleurs ». Cette Conférence, qui a pu se réaliser grâce à l’accueil et l’appui de l’Université Kasetsart...

This is the report of the International Conference of Bangkok - Thailand - 22/27 January 1990. In its search for cooperation and solidarity, the Collective joint hands with fishworkers' organizations and unions. Its characteristic feature lays in its close cooperation between scientists and social workers on the one hand and...

This study concentrates on the constraints in the fisheries management schemes. It examines the history and politics of fisheries management in five countries. It attempts to show how the specific management measures came into being what the techno-ecological and socio-political factors were that influenced the conceptualization and implementation of these...

Fish plays an important role in securing nutritional requirements of coastal populations. It is also a source of export markets in the developing countries. However this tension manifests in the expansion of industrial fisheries sector and devising policies that will sustain livelihoods of artisanal fishers. The international symposium on marine...

Trois scientifiques africains du Ghana, du Sénégal et du Togo analysent et présentent dans ce dossier l'histoire, l'évolution, les réussites et les échecs des efforts engagés pour le développement de la pêche artisanale ou de la pisciculture dans leur pays. Ces contributions s'inscrivaient dans le cadre de deux séminaires internationaux...

L'Agence norvégienne de développement (NORAD) a de plus invité 15 délégués du Tiers Monde à visiter les pêches et les pêcheurs norvégiens à l'issue du Symposium. Dans la même allocution d'ouverture, Pierre Gillet remerciait aussi l'Agence canadienne de développement international (ACDI), Pain pour le Monde (Allemagne), la Fondation pour le...

In Lisbon, Portugal, in June 1989, about one hundred scientists, fishermen and organization representatives from 25 different countries met at a symposium to develop their thinking on these questions. This dossier, has some papers by European speakers at this inter-national meeting organised by ICSF.