News & Updates

  • Call for contribution: SSF Guidelines cluster Voluntary Guidelines on Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries are simply one of the most significant landmarks for small-scale fisheries around the world. They are comprehensive in terms of topics covered and ve...read more
  • New book: Interactive Governance for Small-Scale Fisheries: Global Reflections .  Interactive Governance for Small-Scale Fisheries: Global Reflections draws on more than 30 case studies from  around the world and offers a multitude of examples for improving the governance of small-scale fish...read more
  • Welcome the SSF Profiles! The Information System on Small-scale Fisheries (ISSF) is releasing a major update: SSF profiles! Since its official release in September, the Information System on Small-scale Fisheries has offered a platform to s...read more
  • Report: Transdisciplinary Fisheries Course Development The TBTI transdisciplinary fisheries cluster was established after the 2nd World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress to raise awareness about the need for transdisciplinary thinking in fisheries research and capacity dev...read more
  • Article: Ocean grabbing   An article titled “Ocean grabbing” has recently been published in the Marine Policy journal. The article, written by Nathan J. Bennett  (TBTI member), Hugh Govan and Terre Satterfield, discusses ocea...read more
  • Report: Student Forum at the 2WSFC The Student Forum was held during the 2nd World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress (2WSFC) in Merida, Mexico, 2014 and was organized by TBTI students from six different universities located in Barbados, Canada, Mexico and th...read more
  • Upcoming conferences: MARE, ICES & IMBIZO IV   1) MARE “People and the Sea VIII” Conference, 24-26 June, 2015, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Centre for Maritime Research (MARE) is organizing “People and the Sea VIII conference” that focuses on the ...read more
  • Workshop on the future of marine conservation TBTI co-sponsored a workshop titled “The future of marine conservation: Local and global perspectives” on March 12, 2015 at Memorial University, Canada. The workshop was an opportunity to share lessons from various ...read more
  • Report Transdisciplinary Workshop at the 2WSFC The Transdisciplinary Research Capacity Building in Small Scale Fisheries Workshop was held during the 2nd World Small Scale Fisheries Congress (2WSFC) in Merida, Mexico, 2014. The purpose of the workshop was to lay the ...read more
  • A new coastal fisheries policy for the Pacific Islands developed In the Pacific Islands inshore fisheries are vital to the people providing the primary or secondary source of income for up to 50% of households despite the disproportionate attention paid to the offshore tuna indust...read more