Yemaya recommends: Practical guide for gender analysis in small-scale fisheries and aquaculture in Southeast Asia

The Practical Guide for Gender Analysis in Small-scale Fisheries and Aquaculture is aimed at providing guidance to SEAFDEC (Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center) Departments and ASEAN Member States in the implementation of the SEAFDEC gender strategy as well as human rights-based and gender-equitable approaches in the whole value chain of small-scale fisheries and aquaculture in Southeast Asia. Program/project managers, researchers, and fishery officers of the ASEAN Member States (AMSs) and fisheries-related organizations including SEAFDEC are the target audience

Aquaculture for whom?

Aquaculture and coastal resources management is discussed, indicating the various factors which need to be taken into consideration when introducing aquaculture into a community: 1) Resources users and stakeholders; 2) Perception about resources; 3) Knowledge about aquaculture; 4) Property rights regimes; 5) Gender matters; 6) Consumer preferences; 7) Availability of support services

Knowledge, gender, and resources in small-scale fishing: The case of Honda Bay, Palawan, Philippines

The coastal zone is a place of intense activity where resources, users, and resource-use practices interact. This case study of small-scale fisheries in Honda Bay, Palawan, Philippines shows that resources, space, and gender are intertwined. The study was conducted between June 1997 and July 1998. The data were gathered using free listing, pile sort, ranking, resource mapping, and key informant interviews. The results showed that women's knowledge about fishery resources and their fishing activities are associated with the intertidal zone whereas men's knowledge is associated with coral reefs. In classifying fishery resources, appearance is the main consideration for women whereas a combination of appearance, habitat, and type of fishing gear is the consideration used by men. Market price is very important because of its dependence on the demand of the export market as well as the local market. Women dominate the buying of fishery products. Many women market their husband's catch, process fish, or gather shells and sea cucumber for sale. Among the fishing households, type of fishing gear provides an indication of socioeconomic standing. This paper concludes that access to resources is shaped by gender and age. The differences in resource knowledge possessed by men and women lead to differential access to fishery resources. In addition, the differences in socioeconomic status also influence resource access. The socialization of children into fishing reinforces the gender division of labor and space in the coastal zone.This study is part of my doctoral dissertation at the Department of Geography of the University of Hawaii. I am grateful to the East-West Center for the degree fellowship award and the SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department for funding the field research under study code Se-05-CM97T. I thank Brian Murton, Jon Goss, Mary McDonald, Les Sponsel, and Jim Maragos for their insights and comments. I also thank Marilyn Surtida for her comments on the drafts and Ed Ledesma for preparing the maps

Change in Aplaya: resource use and responses to changing markets among fisherfolk in Honda Bay, Palawan

This study was part of the author's doctoral dissertation at the Department of Geography of the University of Hawai'i. The author was grateful to the East-West Center for the degree fellowship award and the SEAFEC Aquaculture Department for funding the field research under study code Se-05-CM97T and to the villagers of Aplaya for their warm reception and hospitality

Conflict in small-scale fisheries: a case study of Malalison Island, Philippines

This paper provides a framework of conflict in small-scale fisheries and presents a case study of an island community in central Philippines. The following sources of conflict were identified: destruction of fishing gears, destructive fishing practices, and encroachment of commercial fishers into municipal waters. Mechanisms for resolution were found at the individual, group, village, and municipal levels

Problems encountered in the implementation of a community-based fishery resources management project

The article highlights the SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department's (Philippines) Community-based Fishery Resource Management Project activities. Several problems encountered in project implementation and the suggested ways in dealing these problems are also presented

Women and the question of sustainable development in a Philippine fishing village

This paper presents a case study of time use and contribution to the household income of men, women, and children in 12 households in a fishing village in Panay Island, central Philippines. The study highlights the differential impact of poverty on men and women and provides a glimpse of the intrahousehold dynamics within poor fishing households. Findings in previous studies in both industrialized and developing countries that women work longer hours than men were corroborated. Women contribute at least 22% to the household cash income and 40% of the value of unpaid labour. Their contribution to the household cash income becomes larger than that of men's when the value of livestock is computed. Women's daily participation in productive activities, such as fish vending and shucking oyster and mussel, unwittingly puts them in a position of being environmental recorders and verifiers of the state of fishery resources. Because they are burdened with the responsibility of making ends meet, they are also confronted with the challenge of realizing the dream of sending their children to university to enable them to escape poverty. This alone makes women one of the strongest stakeholders in the sustainable development of fishery resources