This report presents an empirical analysis of the dynamics of the community of Béninois (Popo) migrant fishermen in Pointe-Noire. The treatment ...

Within Popo society in Pointe Noire, Congo, fishermen sell their fish to their wives at a price slightly below the local market price. The wives process ...

In this edited volume, senior researcher Ragnhild Overaa writes about coastal women in Ghana in her essay When Sisters Become Competitors: Coastal Women's Innovative Utilization of Trawler By-Catch in Ghana. How do actors in "traditional" and "modern" systems of fishing interact? What economic and social changes occur in a local community as a result of women's entrepreneurship in relation to both systems?

To investigate the local institutional effects of extinsive international migration (Burkina Fasso, Ivory coast, Nigeria) among Bozo fishermen in Mali....

In the geopolitical conflict over the South China Sea (SCS), fishers are at the center of Chinese and Vietnamese cartographic imaginations that define ...

Small-scale or artisanal fishery is a neglected sector in research on African development, despite the fact that fishery is a vital source of protein ...

The relationships between population dynamics and fishery resources are more complex than the concept of Malthusian overfishing implies. Reasons include ...

We illustrate how a national household survey can be applied to analyse a subject that requires data from a small sub-sample. Even for small sub-samples ...

The project contains ten case studies and a synthesis. The case studies have been conducted in five medium sized lakes in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

The fishery of the Fante town Moree in Ghana and its network of migrants in West Africa is here understood as a social field, whose institutions are key ...

Fisheries in the South Africa Development Community freshwaters are found to function as an economic buffer and as a safety valve for thousands of people ...

This multidisciplinary project (demography, geography, fishery biology, sociology)examined population dynamics, development of fishery resources, and ...

The project starts asking if poverty in small scale fisheries really is as serious as one may get the impression of or if some of the misery may be is ...

This remarkable and timely ethnography explores how fishing communities living on the fringe of the South China Sea in central Vietnam interact with state ...