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Elevating labor concerns in small-scale fisheries: challenges to decent work in Peru’s jumbo flying squid fishery
Despite growing attention on severe labor abuses in seafood production, questions remain about the broader range of challenges to decent work in the...
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Responding to civil war: fisheries as a safety net and lootable resource on Lake Tanganyika, the Democratic Republic of Congo
Research on conflict and fisheries has largely focused on conflict between resource users, rather than on how fisheries are affected by external...
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Policy Realignment for the Implementation of the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines in Thailand
The Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) are...
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Social-Environmental Perception of Artisanal Fishermen bout Climate Change, Its Impacts on Fishing: A Comparison Between Socio-Spatially Segregated Communities
Based on the hypothesis that the socio-spatial pattern can influence the perception of socio-environmental phenomena, this study aimed to investigate...
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The Past, Present and Future of Ocean Governance: Snapshots from Fisheries, Area-Based Management Tools and International Seabed Mineral Resources
Ocean governance comprises the law of the sea as well as all related policy and normative dimensions that relate to the regulation of human activity...
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Ocean Economy at Risk: Rise of Distant Water Fleets and Financial Secrecy
This article focuses on Illegal, unreported and nnregulated (IUU) fishing by distant water fleets. It is based on a study titled ‘Fishy Networks’,...
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Green crime in West Africa: uncovering the threats to human security and ecosystem integrity in Cote d'Ivoire, Nigeria, and Senegal
The perpetration and negative consequences of green crime in West Africa are not a recent development. The recent emergence of discussions on the...
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Blue Economy, a New Threat for the Rights of Coastal Communities
Honduras is a Central American country with significant natural richness but threatened by climate change and environmental degradation. It has one...
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A review of how we study coastal and marine conflicts: is social science taking a broad enough view?
Conflict in the marine environment is of increasing relevance as blue growth boundaries are pushed and resource access and use are in dispute. Social...
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Linking Fisher Perceptions to Social-Ecological Context: Mixed Method Application of the SES Framework in Costa Rica
There are few studies about how social-ecological context is linked to actor perceptions in environmental governance, although it is evident that...
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A vision at sea: women in fisheries in the Azores Islands, Portugal
In the Azores, the work of women in fisheries has been invisible and undervalued for decades. This article presents a historical review of the hidden...
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Understanding the cultural impacts of climate change harms on small-scale fisher communities through the lens of cultural ecosystem services
Small-scale fisheries sustain the livelihood and well-being of hundreds of millions of people globally. However, climate change threatens the...
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Beyond rules and regulations: understanding the cultural and social significance of beach seine fishery on Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania
In an effort to restore fisheries health, the Tanzanian Government implemented policies that make the use of beach seines illegal. However, these...
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Underwater Cultural Heritage and Fishing Communities: Safeguarding Heritage and Safeguarding Fishers
This paper proposes that three elements are required in order to develop a fit-for purpose management regime to protect underwater cultural heritage...
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Understanding Fishermen-Scientist Collaboration in Galician Small-Scale Fisheries (NW Spain): Validating a Methodological Toolbox Through a Process-Oriented Approach
In the early 1990s, Galician Regional Government introduced a community-based fishery management system for some sedentary-invertebrate resources....
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Building Small-Scale Fishers’ Adaptive Capacity Through Participatory Action Research in Coastal Uruguay
In Uruguay, as globally, small-scale fisheries sustain numerous communities. Changes in wind patterns and ocean warming in the southwest South...
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Using Transdisciplinary Research Solutions to Support Governance in Inland Fisheries
The diverse nature of internal and external threats and fishery attributes in inland fisheries indicates that the development of long-term solutions...
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Coastal Fishery Livelihood Systems: Socio-economic Implications for Small-Scale Fisherfolk in Winneba, Ghana
Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted livelihood options and systems of people from all walks of life. In this study, we...
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Interpretations of MPA winners and losers: a case study of the Cabo De Palos- Islas Hormigas Fisheries Reserve
There is a controversy in the literature on marine protected areas (MPAs) over the way their outcomes are portrayed in terms of winners and losers....
