Categories to Explore
Welcome to the Resource Library. Here you will find a range of resources that you can use to support your small-scale fishery and community. Use the buttons above to browse resources by category or use the filters on the right to sort resources.
Community-based fisheries management in Solomon Islands
To replenish dwindling fish stocks and ensure plentiful supplies for future generations, communities are developing fisheries management plans to control the use of marine resources.
The importance of fisheries management
Effective fisheries management is essential for healthy, sustainable oceans and for improving the livelihoods of fishing communities worldwide. Watch now to learn about the status of global fisheries and why fisheries management is so important.
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.
Knowledge Sharing for Development
This course from the FAO explains that Knowledge sharing implies culture change, collaborative work and building trust. This course enables organizations and communities to work more effectively and enhance their visibility.
Participatory frameworks and stakeholder strengthening
FAO's course to develop an understanding of the actors and organizations involved in rural poverty reduction and the ways in which they interact. The importance of participatory framework, approaches and methods is highlighted, and the importance of a collaborative and inclusive way of working.
Data Collection Guide for Nearshore Fisheries
The goal of this document is to provide both an overview of fishery data collection programs and a data collection manual for priority finfish. By following the simple guidelines in this document, the data collected can be used for stock assessments (i.e., estimates of how the stock is doing), which allow managers to implement good management measures aimed at ensuring good yields for years to come.
Free Prior and Informed Consent: An indigenous peoples’ right and a good practice for local communities
This Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) Manual is designed as a tool for project practitioners of a broad range of projects and programmes of any development organization, by providing information about the right to FPIC and how it can be implemented in six steps.
SSF Guidelines: Disaster risk and climate change
Small-scale fishing communities are often some of the most vulnerable communities to disaster risks and climate change. This short, animated video shows impacts on small-scale fisheries – and what can be done.
SSF Guidelines: Value chains, post-harvest and trade
This short, animated video gives insights into value chains, post-harvest and trade in small-scale fisheries in small-scale fisheries.
SSF Guidelines: Governance of tenure and resource management
This short, animated video gives insights into governance of tenure and resource management in small-scale fisheries. The term "tenure" refers to how rights to natural resources such as land, lakes, rivers, coasts and forests are assigned within societies.