Fisheries management

Management ensures that resources are available for future generations. Explore strategies, policies, and advocacy tools for the long-term conservation and sustainable use of marine and inland fisheries.

Resources

Threats to Coral Reefs: Overfishing

Coral reef fish are a significant food source for over a billion people worldwide. Many coastal and island communities depend on coral reef fisheries for their economic, social, and cultural benefits. But too much of a good thing can be bad for coral reefs.

Fisheries policy, governance & management

Fisheries management

Climate change

Disaster preparedness and response

Marine Havens Under Threat: The impacts of the climate crisis on tropical coral reefs and the communities that rely on them

This report focuses on climate change as the primary long-term threat to coral reefs, but it is clear that both unsustainable fishing and pollution are serious near-term threats that must not be neglected.

Fisheries policy, governance & management

Fisheries management

Disaster risks & climate change

Climate change

Skipper's Guidebook to Pole-And-Line Fishing Best Practices

A guidebook detailing best-practices for maximising catch value and also minimising the environmental impacts of pole-and-line tuna fisheries is published by the International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF) and the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF).

Fisheries policy, governance & management

Fisheries management

Value chains & post harvest

Value add and processing

Seafood handling and storage

Traceability

Fisheries Governance Tool (FGT)

The Fisheries Governance Tool (FGT) is a neutral, indicator-based diagnostic tool that provides stakeholders with a comprehensive and reliable understanding of how a country’s fisheries management system is performing and progressing over time.

Fisheries policy, governance & management

Fisheries management

TIDE Case Study – Community Stewards Program

TIDE Community Stewards Program - Promoting community stewardship of natural resources around Port Honduras Marine Reserve.

Fisheries policy, governance & management

Fisheries management

Illegal fishing and enforcement

Other resources & approaches

Leadership

Capacity development

A review of governance and tenure in inland capture fisheries and aquaculture systems of India

This document examines the tenure systems, rights and governance issues in the vast, diverse and complex inland fisheries of India. The objective is to highlight how inland fisheries have been changing and the associated challenges for governance and tenure.

Fisheries policy, governance & management

Fisheries management

Tenure rights

Food security & nutrition

Aquaculture

Impact of Climate Change on Small-scale Fisheries in Africa

Impacts of climate change on small-scale fisheries in Africa.

Fisheries policy, governance & management

Fisheries management

Disaster risks & climate change

Climate change

Pengukuran wilayah perikanan Rajungan di perairan timur Provinsi Lampung

kegiatan ini melibatkan Kelompok Usaha Bersama Nelayan Lampung Timur, EDF Indonesia, Mitra Bentala, dan Dinas Perikanan Pemerintah Lampung.

Science, knowledge & information gathering

Science and assessments

Fisheries policy, governance & management

Fisheries management

Assessing inclusion in community-based natural resource management: A framework and methodology

This Guidance Note offers a framework that opens the “black box” of inclusion and removes uncertainty around the meaning of inclusion—in so doing we make clear distinctions between inclusion from more superficial forms or measures, especially attendance. The Guidance Note then presents a set of mixed methods and tools to assess inclusion (and exclusion) using this framework.

Fisheries policy, governance & management

Co-management

Fisheries management

Social development & employment

Worker rights and decent work