This study presents the current state of play of the mutual recognition of certificates of competency of EU fishers and the functioning of the social security schemes that cover them. Based on the analysis of these topics, the study discusses the impact of the current situation on the mobility...

Purpose This research aims to study the economic conditions of fishermen living in the coastal area of Kabupaten Pesisir Selatan. Design/methodology/approach The method used is a descriptive analysis method supported by a participatory planning method. The importance of primary data is to...

This study assessed the livelihood and poverty status of floating fishermen who live in a boat for a lifetime and fishing is their main means of livelihood. Dakatia river which has been flowing through Chandpur and Laxmipur district of Bangladesh was selected for this study. This study used...

This paper examines the role of other-regarding and time preferences for cooperation in the field. We study the preferences of fishermen whose main, and often only, source of income stems from using a common pool resource (CPR). The exploitation of a CPR involves a negative interpersonal and...

Revealing the practice of the capital assistance system in coastal communities that are indicated to have deviated from the principles of social capital, and building an integrated model as a solution for improving fishermen's low performance are the main objectives of this study. For this...

"On a global scale, more than 40 million people make their living working directly at sea as fishers, seafarers, in aquaculture or seabed-mining, or related occupations such as dockworkers, shipbuilding, logistics, maritime administration, secondary branches of shipping, marine tourism and other...

The involvement of women in policy development and community services was a manifestation of the implementation of an essential democracy, because women are as assets and the potential of the nation can contribute greatly to national and state life in accordance with their abilities and...

The fishermen's resilience index modeling was prepared as an effort to develop a fishermen's resilience assessment model based on a social ecological system approach. Fishermen have various kinds of obstacles in order to maintain their lives and livelihoods so that they are able to provide...

Unmooring for beginners.Lesson one: making space ;Lesson two: stories and scholarship ;Lesson three: a brief history of the pre-bust Louisiana shrimp fishery ;Syllabus --Blood.Bloodlines ;Blood magic and cruelty ;Ecology and the body --Water.Bodies of water ;Names of water, or the idea of order...

In the past few years, the world had suffered from a large drop in economy especially throughout the tourism sector. Developing countries were discovering new forms of tourism that would help the poor in upgrading their living and satisfying their needs of settlement. Not all informal areas of...

The general labour and employment laws of many countries do not necessarily take into account the special circumstances of those who work in the agriculture, forestry and fisheries sectors, whereas legislation governing these sectors tend not to integrate appropriate labour standards. This...

This paper investigates whether rights-based management in fisheries ends the “race to fish.” The staggered introductions of catch shares in the Alaska pollock and Pacific hake fisheries — neighboring regional fisheries that are the largest and sixth largest fishery by volume in the United...

Agriculture like many businesses is full of risks: marketing, financial, production, labor, and legal risks. With each risk area, producers must develop strategies to manage those risks. To manage marketing risks, for example, a producer would develop a plan for how to handle crops grown over...

Fishers are often perceived to be poor, and low income levels are used to justify subsidies and other types of direct and indirect income support to maintain coastal communities. In this study we investigate fishers' income levels in four Nordic countries; Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden for...

We study the roots of violence against women, and propose that it partly originates in cultural norms that derive from (a) characteristics of the traditional subsistence problem in different societies, and (b) differences in the sexual division of labor for solving that problem in each society....

Understanding what determines the extent to which economic agents tell the truth to their regulating authority is of major economic importance, from banking to environmental protection. To this end, we examine truth-telling of German commercial fishermen in an artefactual field experiment. Their...

The increasing rates of per capita consumption of fish around the world should be a matter of concern for those interested in the threats to fishing stocks, aquatic biodiversity and human health. Fish consumption has positive health benefits but also brings higher risks of intake of heavy metals...

Understanding fishermen's perspectives and responses relating to climate variability is important for sustainable fisheries management. To this end, a survey of captains of commercial passenger fishing vessels (CPFVs) was conducted in San Diego. The survey demonstrates that fishermen have...

The functioning and well-being of any society and organization critically hinges on norms of cooperation that regulate social activities. Empirical evidence on how such norms emerge and in which environments they thrive remains a clear void in the literature. To provide an initial set of...

The functioning and well-being of any society and organization critically hinges on norms of cooperation that regulate social activities. Empirical evidence on how such norms emerge and in which environments they thrive remains a clear void in the literature. To provide an initial set of...

This article considers the modern regulation of the harvesting of red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico and discusses its effect on recreational fishermen, commercial fishermen, and the economies surrounding the Gulf. In addition, this article focuses on the Iron Idle Initiative’s impact on the...

Recent empirical findings have cast doubt on the neoclassical model of labor supply. However, estimation issues, and not workers' behavior, may be responsible for these findings. This paper investigates this possibility by examining daily labor supply of Florida lobster fishermen. I invariably...

The biological resources of the sea have long fascinated man. The mystery of what lies beneath the surface has stimulated his imagination and nurtured hope that in this vast area there are resources capable of feeding a growing and a still hungry population for centuries to come. But, at the...

Occupant au début du XXIe siècle moins de 250 000 actifs pour l'ensemble du bassin méditerranéen, les activités halieutiques ont marqué l'histoire des sociétés littorales depusi l'Antiquité, conférant aux rivages de la mer Intérieure une identité spécifique. Ces activités ont connu...