Global problems facing the marine fisheries sector, including overfishing and the marginalization of the small-scale sector, are leading to increased ...

Dr Eirik G. Jansen is a social anthropologist whose research has mainly focused on natural resource management in traditional fisheries in East Africa and land issues in Bangladesh.

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?

This paper develops a dynamic computational bioeconomic model with the objective of assessing protected marine reserves as fisheries management tools. ...

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 ...

(ACP-EU fisheries research report no. 7)

Markets and the fishing down marine food webs phenomenon Ussif Rashid Sumaila EC fisheries cooperat

(ACP-EU fisheries research report no. 7)

This report is an evaluation of the "Zambia-Zimbabwe SADC Fisheries Project". The project aims to establish effective fisheries management regimes for ...

Lack of transparency in commercial fisheries has been a longstanding issue for those working to promote small-scale fishers’ rights in developing ...

The desire to modernise African small-scale fisheries has persisted since colonial times. In terms of research into and policy on fisheries, mainstream ...

Protected marine reserves as hedges against uncertainty: An economist's perspective Ussif Rashid Su

Heightened competition and considerable illegal fishing by commercial boats, suggest that incentives for corruption in African fisheries are high. Dependence ...

Commentary: Enclosing Blue Commons, Generating Blue Growth? Comment on Fiona McCormack’s “Precarity,

(ACP-EU fisheries research report no. 7)

This paper develops a model for Namibian hake, which incorporates the biology, gear selectivity and the economics of the hake fisheries in a framework ...

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 ...

This U4 Issue paper describes corruption in the fisheries sector through the lens of state-corporate crime. It presents a case study from Senegal where ...

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 ...