Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam, all active players in the …) socioeconomic profile of major stakeholders in the fisheries sector; 4) projections of fish demand and supply in the nine Asian …

International Symposium on Women in Asian Fisheries presents a record of the 1998 symposium. The fisheries sector has …

Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam, all active players in the …) socioeconomic profile of major stakeholders in the fisheries sector; 4) projections of fish demand and supply in the nine Asian …

and fisheries. Drawing on work undertaken around the globe, the results described here confirm and extend earlier work and … show that contributions to the fisheries sector among different genders are highly differentiated but uniformly substantial … problems are especially stark for the small-scale fisheries of developing countries where women often bear brunt of poverty …

In Asia, the fisheries sector is important in terms of food security, livelihoods and foreign exchange earnings …. However, as in many parts of the world, there are signs that capture fisheries are fully exploited or overfished. Management … of fisheries in the region is often hampered by lack of information on the status of fisheries in terms of biological …