Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission

Small-scale fisheries

This document is an 14 page illustrated summary of the 300 page RFLP baseline survey for Indonesia against the five RFLP national level outputs namely co-management, safety at sea and vulnerability reduction, post-harvest and marketing, livelihoods enhancement and diversification and micro-finance services. This document is in a format which policy makers can quickly and easily understand, digest and take better...
The sharing of management responsibility and authority between local communities and government over fisheries resources can play a major role in their improvement. The Regional Fisheries Livelihoods Programme for South and Southeast Asia (RFLP) funded by Spain and implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has sought to establish mechanisms and build capacity for co-management in...
The Regional Fisheries Livelihoods Programme (RFLP) supported the establishment of a multi-agency technical committee which drafted a national plan for the safety of fishers and fishing vessels at sea for Sri Lanka. The national plan presented in this document was approved by the government.
The Regional Fisheries Livelihoods Programme for South and Southeast Asia (RFLP) has sought to reduce fisher vulnerability in Cambodia by introducing a safer and more stable design of the commonly used 12-meter wooden fishing boat. This case study  describes the   process and outcome of this intervention.
English version of an illustrated leaflet on a system for reporting accidents at sea. The system was piloted in Cambodia, Indonesia and Timor-Leste with Regional Fisheries Livelihoods Programme support.