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.
2009

RFLP funded a desk study review of micro-finance services available to coastal small-scale fisher communities and aquaculture in Southeast 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, Philippines.

2006

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

2004

The Second International Symposium on the Management of Large Rivers for Fisheries was held on 11 – 14 February 2003 in Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia. It had three primary objectives: 1) to provide a forum to review and synthesize the latest information on large rivers; 2) to raise the political, public and scientific awareness of the importance of river systems, the living aquatic resources they support and the people who depend on them; and 3) to contribute to...