Gender in fisheries

  • The Woman Behind the Stand”

    Beyond the “Middlemen” in seafood trade I didn’t expect to be doing this — buying, selling, managing a stand. I studied hospitality management, actually. But it was the only course my father could afford at the time. Even when I was in school, I’d tag along with him to the port on weekends. Ako gid

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  • Multidimensional human wellbeing in periodic octopus closures in Zanzibar

    Access the open article here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26395916.2024.2412616 A new paper just published from my Postdoc with the OctoPINTS project https://octopints.wordpress.com/ Abstract: Our study of periodic octopus closures helps to fill an empirical gap in community-based marine protected area (MPA) research on socially-diverse multidimensional wellbeing impacts. Human wellbeing provides a more meaningful and holistic measure of social

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  • Gen(d)erating local responses to global market signals

    In Philippine fishing communities, gender roles have a bigger influence than price on fishers’ business decisions. Story highlights: What would you do if you were offered a higher price for something that you are selling? Your first instinct might be the rational economic response: produce more, sell more, and laugh all the way to the

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  • No place for Big Mamma

    Story highlights: If you live somewhere in Europe and you like canned tuna, chances are it could be from Ghana. The fast-swimming saltwater fish has been exploited in Ghana for centuries but over the past 50 years it has developed into a global industry with the European Union being their biggest market. Still, local markets

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  • Untangling the net of small-scale fisheries trade

    Story highlights: There is an old rhyme, “To market, to market to buy a penny bun. Home again, home again, market is done.” The rhyme points out the buyer, and indirectly the trader or seller, but leaves to the imagination the baker, distributer, deliverer, and a number of other important players in getting that penny

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