This dossier puts together documents relating to a unique Public Hearing, held at Cochin, India in June 1995, on the problems faced by women workers in India's fish processing industry. Apart from a comprehensive report on the sector, this Dossier includes transcripts of oral testimonies of some of the women...

This publication is the official record of what transpired at Cebu conference held between 2 and 7 June 1994. It is a compendium of papers, reports and special contributions on topical concerns in global fisheries management. It also contains the reports of the various working groups which tackled the conference's...

Ce dossier contient deux contributions distinctes. Elles rapportent certains résultats issus de deux recherches menées sur le terrain de la pêche sénégalaise et issues de la collaboration entre le CREDETIP (Centre de Recherche et de Développement des Technologies intermédiaires dans la Pêche) de Dakar, ONG de réflexion et de soutien...

In the last two decades prior to 1990’s a serious and severely damaging fish disease has been spreading through countries of the Asia Pacific region with dangerous consequences. Not only is this disease- now officially termed Epizootic Ulcerative Syndrome (EUS)- a scientific puzzle, it is also a worrisome social problem....

Originally, the Lome convention aimed to be the framework for genuine development cooperation between the Old Continent and its former colonies. It was an instrument which, without being a cure for all ills, provided substantial guarantees for countries that had been exhausted by years of economic, political and cultural domination...

Le Collectif international d’appui à la pêche artisanale (ICSF) a organisé à Bangkok (Thaïlande), du 22 au 27 janvier 1990, une Conférence rassemblant des scientifiques, des travailleurs de la pêche, des animateurs sociaux et des décideurs sur le thème « Évolution des pêches et avenir des travailleurs ».

Le Collectif International d’appui à la pêche artisanale  a organisé à Bangkok, Thaïlande, du 22 au 27 janvier 1990, une Conférence internationale sur le thème « Évolution globale des pêches et avenir des travailleurs ». Cette Conférence, qui a pu se réaliser grâce à l’accueil et l’appui de l’Université Kasetsart...

This is the report of the International Conference of Bangkok - Thailand - 22/27 January 1990. In its search for cooperation and solidarity, the Collective joint hands with fishworkers' organizations and unions. Its characteristic feature lays in its close cooperation between scientists and social workers on the one hand and...

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...