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The Role of Youth, Women and Culture in Fisheries Management

Explore the vital roles of youth, women, and culture in sustainable small-scale fisheries development, addressing conventional management gaps and promoting social justice, ecosystem health, and food security. Learn about the overlooked contributions of women fishers and the transformative potential of inclusive coastal resource management.

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The Role of Youth, Women and Culture in Fisheries Management

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  1. The Role of Youth, Women and Culture in Fisheries Management A/Prof Kate Barclay University of Technology Sydney

  2. Why Does it Matter? Image source: therebelmum.com • Address shortcomings in conventional fisheries management!!!! • Effective, sustainable SSF development • Conventional perspective: • Male focus • Biology/ecology focus

  3. Fish Chains • Similar to supply chains but broader • Four interrelated concerns • food security • livelihoods • social justice • ecosystem health

  4. Culture & SSF in Melanesia Photo source: Kate Barclay • Village culture • Cash & non-cash activities • National development project culture • Donor & international development culture

  5. Danika Kleiber’s work “Collecting Shells at Low Tide”, by Hokusai, Japan, c. 1832-1834. Colour on silk. Osaka Municipal Art Museum, Osaka. Source: http://www.nippon.com/en/currents/d00021/ • Ecological reasons, women fish! • 42% of fishers • 25% of total catch • Women fishers overlooked as key variables • Women evaporate in data collection

  6. WorldFish in Solomon Islands Photo source: Kate Barclay • Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) • New approach coastal resource management • Highlights centrality of women!

  7. Bibliography • Barclay, K., Kinch, J. (2013). ‘Local Capitalisms: Sustainability in Coastal Fisheries’, in McCormack, F. and Barclay, K. (eds) Engaging with Capitalism: Cases from Oceania, Research in Economic Anthropology series, No. 33, Emerald, Bingley, United Kingdom. • Bennett, G., Cohen, P., Schwarz, A.M., Rafe, M., Teioli, H., Andrew, N. (2014). Solomon Islands: Western Hub scoping report. CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems. Penang, Malaysia. Project Report: AAS-2014-14. • Jones C, Schwarz AM, Sulu R and Tikai P. 2014. Foods and diets of communities involved in inland aquaculture in Malaita Province, Solomon Islands. Penang, Malaysia: CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems. Program Report: AAS-2014-30. • Kleiber, D., Harris, L.M., and Vincent, A.C.J. 2014. Gender and small-scale fisheries: a case for counting women and beyond. Fish and Fisheries. DOI: 10.1111/faf.12075 • Kooiman, J., M. Bavinck, S. Jentoft and R. Pullin (eds). (2005). Fish for Life: Interactive Governance for Fisheries. MARE Publication Series, No. 3, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam.

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