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.

This short film explores the role of women fishworkers in selected regions of India. It looks at some of the problems they face in their daily work and the initiatives they have taken to deal with them. Many of these issues are highlighted in an interview with a woman fish...

This is the proceedings of the Workshop on Issues in Fisheries Development organized by the SIFFS (South Indian Federation of Fishermen Societies) and the Centre for Development Studies in Trivandrum, India, from 20-25 November, 1986. On the 25th November 1986 the formation of ICSF at Trivandrum, India was made possible....

This report documents the international conference of fishworkers and their supporters that took place in Rome, Italy from July 4-8, 1984. The conferences was an historical event, fishworkers the main actors of fisheries development have been excluded from discussions and decision making, both at broad policy level and concrete project...