SSF archive

Knowing first hand Galician fisheries

FOL left the office for the field to learn about the social-ecological systems that we are working with

05/11/2020 - After spending a lot of time working remotely from home and doing shifts at the lab, at the end of October, new members of Future Oceans Lab joined Elena to visit the Cambados Fisher Guild, and learned first hand about small-scale fisheries (SSF) management. This cofradía is the oldest fisher guild in Spain, and is […]

CATEGORIES: Dissemination, Research, Team

FOL publishes a new study on Vulnerability assessment of Galician stalked barnacle fishery to climate change impact

RAQUEL RUIZ-DÍAZ LEADS A NEW PUBLICATION WITHIN THE CLOCK PROJECT WITH THE COLLABORATION OF FOL MEMBERS ELENA OJEA AND ALBA AGUIÓN

18/09/2020 - Small-scale fisheries (SSFs), which provide an important source of livelihood for many coastal communities, are at risk from climate change. Benthic organisms are likely to be particularly affected by the impacts of climate change due to their low spatial mobility, which limits their capacity for adaptation. Therefore, SSFs that target sedentary resources (“S-fisheries”) will potentially […]

CATEGORIES: Alba Aguión, Clock, Elena Ojea, Raquel Ruiz Diaz, Results, Sissi Xiaozi Liu

The importance of gender in small-scale fisheries

Elena Ojea and Diego Salgueiro evaluate the gender component within IHH project in Spain case study

12/06/2020 - The Illuminating Hidden Harvest (IHH) project focuses on the contributions of Small Scale Fisheries (SSF) to the four dimensions of sustainable development (social, economic, environmental and governance) at global and local scales. Moreover, it includes a gender analysis in all these components since gender is crosscutting theme in small-scale fisheries. The main idea is to […]

CATEGORIES: Diego Salgueiro, Elena Ojea, IHH, Research

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