This is all about role of women in fisheries

1. Women in Fisheries Status, Role,
Issues and their Impact in Future
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Suchismita Prusty
FEX-MA-7-05

2. " I have only one request,
I do not ask for money, although I have need of it,
I do not ask for meat, I have only one request,
And all I ask is that you remove the road block from my path”
(Samantha, 1995)
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3. Outline
• Introduction
• Reasons for participation in Fisheries sector
• Status in Indian Scenario
• Contribution in Marine sector
• Status in different Maritime States
• Roles of women in fisheries
• Major issues confronting by women
• Women’s impact on Fisheries sector
• Fisheries sector impact on women
• Conclusion
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4. Introduction
• According to United Nation’s report women perform 2/3rd
of the world’s work and receive only 10% of income and
own 1% of the total assets
• In the world’s two major fish producing countries, China
and India, women represent respectively 21% and 24%
of all fishers and fish farmers
• It has been estimated that more than 50 million women
are engaged in fisheries through out the world
Why???
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5. Reasons for participation in Fisheries sector
• Poverty
• Support their men
• Widow / migration of men
• Less opportunities of employment
• Descendant of fishing family
• Less education
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6. Status of women in fisheries in
Indian scenario
• Women in India constitute around 50% of the total
population and constitute 1/3rd of the labour force
• Active Fisher population = 5.4 million
Fishermen = 3.8 million
Fisherwomen = 1.6 million
• The over all Sex ratio is 928 females per 1000 males.
The sex ratio is maximum in Puducherry (982), minimum
in West bengal (865)
• Nearly 44.2% fisherwomen and 40.4% fishermen are
unschooled
(Source:CMFRI,2010 Census)
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7. Women contribution in marine sector
• The major activities, in which the women’s contribution is
noticed through out the country are fish processing and
marketing
• Processing sector
 More than 90% in prawn peeling
 70% in the processing of other fishery products
• Beach worker which is 26.92%
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8. Continue
Indirect Contribution Direct Contribution
Cooking Peeling
Childcare& education Fish trading
Family health Export oriented processing
Sanitation Landing centre oriented works
Petty shop in landing Centre Value addition
Diesel supply for boats Small scale entrepreneurship
Mobile food unit Fish curing
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9. Status of Women in Different
Maritime States
Tamilnadu
• seaweed collection
• Salt-pans, where the ratio of women to men is 4:1.
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10. Andhra Pradesh
• Collecting fish, and molluscan shells
• Fish drying, curing, marketing, shrimp processing and net
making
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11. West Bengal
• Net making
• Fish drying and curing
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12. Maharastra
• Fish marketing
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13. Lakshadweep
Producing fishery products known as masmin, riha, and akru
of tuna
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14. Roles of Women in Fisheries
Role
Small scale
Aquaculture
Seafood
industry
Decision
making
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15. Roles in Small scale fishery
Pre harvest
• Mending
net
Post harvest
• Gutting &
cleaning
• Salting
• Drying
Catching
• Hand
fishing
• Beach
Seining
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16. Roles in sea food industry
• Laborers(prawn processing)
• Supervisors
• Quality controllers
• Administrators
• Directors
• CEOs
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17. Roles in Aquaculture
• Pond preparation
• Preparation of fish feed
• Pond manuring
• Seaweed culture
• Crab fattening
• Mussel culture
• Backyard ornamental farming
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18. Roles in Resource management &
decision making
• Participation in official discussion
• Disturbance handling
• Resource allocating
• Negotiating
• Expenditure in inputs
• Opting measures to increase
• Storage management
• Market selection
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19. Major issues confronting by
Fisherwomen
Social issues
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Sl.No Issues Rank
1 Poor Social status I
2 Poor Social acceptance II
3 Lack of presentation in fishery cooperatives and other local
bodies
III
4 Lack of platform to express IV
5 Restriction to go for work V
6 Men do not take supportive role VI
7 Less interaction with development agencies VII
8 Division of labour and wage discrimination VIII

20. Sl.No. Issues Rank
1
Lack of fool proven marketing
channel
I
2 Poor Income II
3 Lack of marketing information III
4 Poor working Capital IV
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Economic Issues

21. Institutional issues
Sl.No Issues Rank
1 Inaccessibility to Credit I
2 Improper saving Schemes II
3 Lack of location specific
development project
III
4 Shift in focus from local market to
export market
IV
5 Lack of job security V
6 Insufficient information support VI
7 Improper supply of production inputs VII
8 Lack of professional expertise in
NGOs
VIII
9 Improper legislative support IX
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22. Technological Issues
Sl.No. Technological issues Rank
1 Technological progress leading to
unemployment
I
2 Unappropriate innovative
equipment/method
II
3 Lack of technological
advice/supervision
III
4 Inaccessable to training
opportunities
IV
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23. Personal Issues
Sl.No Issues Rank
1 Lack of alternate
employment
opportunities in off
season
I
2 Lack of ownership of
assets
II
3 No time/mind set to
keep social contacts
III
4 Low literacy rate IV
5 Lack of political
commitments
V
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24. Women’s impact on Fisheries sector
• Increase in Fish production
• Improvement in fish handling practices and equipments
• Improvement in traditional technology of fish processing
• Effective adoption of new technology
• Socio-economic development of fisheries sector
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25. Fisheries sector impact on women
• Generate better livelihood opportunity
• Generate supplemental income to support family
• Ensure nutritional security of individual and family
• Make self reliant
• Develop entrepreneurial skill
• Increase in social status
• Improving decision making and leadership capability
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26. conclusion
• In order to make rapid economic development no nation
can ignore this 50% of its population and will try bring in
social change and economic prosperity by removing
gender imbalances
• This would mobilize the remaining 50% of the country’s
human resources and would result in smooth movement
of economic wheel
• National policies should be resolute in tackling this issue
and local bodies should ensure the implementation of
these policies at the community level
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