Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission

Fishery livelihoods

This is a curated collection of technical documents that are relevant tolivelihoods in fisheries and aquaculture in the Asia-Pacific region, with particulalr emphaisis on small-scale fisheries.
2013

This case study presents an independent consultant assessment of the gender impact of RFLP activities conducted in inshore coastal fisher communities in 9 municipalities and 2 cities of Zamboagna del Norte province, Mindanao Island in the Philippines. The report includes an overview of the context, details of the interventions, gives the results, implementation problems, and recommendations and key lessons learned which should be of interest to other rural development practitioners be they government, NGO's...

2013

RFLP engaged two international consultants to conduct an assessment of the grouper and snapper fishery in Zamboanga del Norte province of the Philippines and to identify priority areas to be addressed in a fishery improvement plan for the grouper and snapper fishery. RFLP engaged two international consultants to conduct an assessment of the grouper and snapper fishery in Zamboanga del Norte province of the Philippines and to identify priority areas to be addressed in...

2013

An international consultant reviewed aquatic product certification schemes used in the region and made recommendations for an improver’s scheme called the Good Fish Code which would provide incremental incentives (provided by corporate socially responsible companies) for steps taken to promote improved co-management of inshore fisheries. The GFC includes social, biological, governance and environmental evaluation criteria.