Training  course notes for  a fishery  operations  traing  course used in the  Maldives. It covers  safety  at  sea and other operaitonal  aspects .

  APFIC (2009). APFIC/FAO Regional consultative workshop Best practices to support and improve the livelihoods of small-scale fisheries and aquaculture households, 13–15 October 2009, Manila, Philippines. FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand. RAP Publication 2009/01, 50 pp.   Ensuring that fisheries and aquaculture are undertaken sustainably and equitably lies at the heart of the FAO Code of...

RFLP funded a desk study review of micro-finance services available to coastal small-scale fisher communities and aquaculture in South Asia with special attention to women. The findings and recommendations to stimulate livelihoods diversification were presented at the APFIC/FAO Regional consultative workshop on Best practices to support and improve the livelihoods of small-scale fisheries and aquaculture households, 13–15 October 2009, Manila,...

          A  short  pictorial guide to some of the  problems   encountered when  procuring  fishing  vessels  in  post  tsunami rehabilitation  programmes. 

  One can broadly say that fishing boats engaged in the small-scale sector account for the bulk of marine fish landings in south Asia. Yet, this sizeable fleet of fishing vessels is ignored when it is a matter of compliance with safety standards, since such standards do not exist in the region for fishing vessels less than 24m in length. More...