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What are ways to strengthen the value chain of your fishery and earn more from harvests? Small-scale fisheries are essential to the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, including fishers and fish workers. Supporting the people working along fishery value chains and strengthening infrastructure and processes are critical to the well-being of small-scale fisheries communities. Start here to learn about value chains, post harvest, and trade and explore the sub-categories below. 

Resources

Conservation Strategy Fund's Fisheries Economics & Policy Videos

CSF designed the Fisheries & Economic Policy video series for environmental professionals, government staff, community leaders and other key stakeholders involved in fisheries management. This high quality video series provides insights into the economic drivers of overfishing, and shows how an understanding of these economic forces can lead to the design of more successful management and policy interventions.
Fisheries policy, governance & management
Fisheries management
Value chains & post harvest
Value add and processing

Triple Impact Fisheries Evaluation Framework: Integrating Environmental, Social and Business Performance

"The triple impact framework described in this document has been developed to evaluate needs, plan improvements, and monitor and publicly report progress against the environmental, social and financial dimensions of sustainability. "
Science, knowledge & information gathering
Science and assessments
Fisheries policy, governance & management
Fisheries management
Value chains & post harvest
Human rights & gender equality
Human rights-based approach
Social development & employment
Worker rights and decent work
Capacity development

Information and communication technologies for small-scale fisheries (ICT4SSF) - A handbook for fisheries stakeholders

The aim of this report is to present evidence towards how Information and Communication Technologies for Small-scale Fisheries (ICT4SSF) might enable and support the implementation of the FAO’s Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines). We present case studies of ICT4SSF initiatives in different use areas to identify key themes and reflect on successes and failures.
Science, knowledge & information gathering
Technology for fisheries
Monitoring and reporting
Value chains & post harvest
Market access
Human rights & gender equality
Gender in fisheries

Manual of Good Hygiene Practice for Fishing Boats and Fish Landing Sites in Small-scale Fisheries

"This manual provides small-scale fisheries stakeholders with guidance on how to handle fishery products (FP) hygienically and carefully to produce food that is safe to eat and of high quality. It is intended for use by small scale fishers and other stakeholders in community based FP supply chains. It is a working manual and aims to raise awareness of hygiene and quality standards and how to achieve them. The overall aim of the manual is to provide small scale fisheries stakeholders with the basic knowledge to improve food health quality of FP, reduce post harvest losses and so increase income from small-scale fishery operations."
Value chains & post harvest
Value add and processing
Seafood handling and storage

Cooperatives in small-scale fisheries: enabling successes through community empowerment

"Cooperatives in the small-scale fisheries sector are a way of maximizing long-term community benefits to deal with the threats of fisheries mismanagement, livelihood insecurity and poverty – harsh realities for many of the world’s small-scale fishers. Communities with successful community-based organizations are better off than those without (Ostrom, 1990). Successful cooperatives are possible, feasible and desirable and play an important role in community development. Cooperatives have the potential to empower small-scale fishers against environmental and socio-economic shocks such as catch shortfalls, sickness and death in their families, natural disasters and hunger. The following case studies show how fisheries cooperatives contribute to improving the conditions of small-scale fishers around the globe."
Fisheries policy, governance & management
Co-management
Fisheries management
Value chains & post harvest
Value add and processing
Social development & employment
Fisher and fishworker organizations

FAO Podcast TZH 46 - How do you tackle illegal fishing?

Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is worth an estimated US$23 billion annually, but it’s wreaking havoc on marine resources and the environment. The Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA), introduced in 2016, aims to tackle this global problem. It's the first binding international agreement that specifically targets illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. To date, 87 States are party to the treaty, with more to follow. To explain how the treaty works, we hear from Manuel Barange, director of Fisheries and Aquaculture, and Matthew Camilleri, senior fisheries officer at FAO.
Fisheries policy, governance & management
Fisheries management
Illegal fishing and enforcement
Value chains & post harvest
Traceability

Women's Role, Struggles and Strategies Across Fisheries Value Chain: The Case of Lake Victoria - Tanzania

The focus of this study was on Dagaa (sardines) (Rastrineobola argentea) Fishery which involves mostly women in its overall value chain. The study sites were areas that are specialized in dagaa fishery and these include Lushonga Island located in the Muleba district of Kagera region, Mwanza Kirumba international fish market and in some of the landing beaches in Nyamagana and Ilemela districts in Mwanza.
Value chains & post harvest
Value add and processing
Human rights & gender equality
Human rights-based approach
Gender in fisheries
Capacity development

Participatory Market System Development (PMSD)

A market development tool based on multi-stakeholder collaboration for inclusive, biodiversity-friendly supply chains with long term scalable impacts. This resource provide detail guidance on the 10-step PMSD methodology. This ensure market actors (community, traders, buyers, exporters, end buyers) collaborate on addressing challenges for own benefits. Relevant for both agriculture and seafood supply chains. 
Value chains & post harvest
Market access
Other resources & approaches
Capacity development
Participatory processes and stakeholder engagement
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