This ppt given the basic knowledge about Women’s role in fisheries

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BSc in Fisheries Science,
University Of Jaffna,
Sri Lanka.

2. Outline
• Introduction
• The factors discourage
• Women’s role in small scale
fisheries
• Women’s role in seafood processing
industry
• Women’s role in Aquaculture
• Women’s role in resource
management and decision making
• Conclusion
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3. Women’s involvement in fisheries seem
to be similar all the world over
• 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 throughout the
world
• WHY????
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4. Reasons for participation
• Poverty
• Husband regular consumer of liquor &
without employment
• Support their men
• Widow
• Less opportunities of employment
• Descendant of fishing family
• Less education 4

5. Role
Small
scale
aquacultu
re
Seafood
industry
Decision
making
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Importance of women participation in
small scale fishery
• Improvement in fish handling practices and equipment
• Training in better preservation methods improving the hygienic
quality of products
• Improvements to the traditional technology of fish processing
• Training in the setting up of cooperatives
• Building of a sound infrastructure
• Provision of financial assistance
• Improved organization of raw material supplies
• Development of appropriate intermediate technology for net
making.

8. Net mending & Preparation
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9. Cleaning
Sorting
Karainagar
Karainagar
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10. Drying
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11. Marketing
Pannai market
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12. Fishing by hand
Before the fishing Flashing mud
Hand fishing in turbid water
Catch
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Source : Women’s fishing and socio-economic status of poor fishing village,
Naguleliya Sri Lanka. Aruna Dissanayake

13. Beach seine fishing
Pulling net
Collecting fish
Transporting fish
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14. Profile Of A Heroine:
The 69-Year-Old Talaimannar
Fisherwoman Breaking Social
Boundaries
Daya neththasinha
To support her family, Helen Jasitha
Fernando took up fishing, even though
she could not swim. Close to 70 now,
Fernando will keep fishing – and for a
worthy reason.
25.07.2016 | MANNAR
http://thecatamaran.org/2016/07/25/the-69-year-old-talaimannar-fisherwoman-breaking-
social-boundaries/
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15. • Newly introduced technology can affect
the present activities of women. For
example, technologically advanced fish
processing with ice plants and
transportation systems can eliminate
small-scale fish processing and trading
that are now being carried out by women
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16. Women’s role in seafood
processing
• The emergence of shrimp processing during the late
1980s opened up new avenues for women as wage earners.
• younger, educated women, have been drawn into paid work
• In Sri Lankan seafood processing firms, more than 90%
of the plant workers are women.
• The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (2003) recorded that the
overall female participation in the labor force is 32.5% in
Sri Lanka.
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17. Occupation
groups
Number of
females
employees
Male: Female
Laborers(prawn
processing)
1535 2:10
Supervisors 45 10:2
Quality
controllers
4 10:5
administrators 21 10:5
directors 6 10:2
CEOs 1 100:1
Ratio between men and women of different occupations in a processing plant
Source: Survey findings, March/April, 2004
KMK
TSF
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18. Women’s role in aquaculture
• The tasks of looking after a pond , preparing fish feed are usually
relegated to women, while men are engaged in other aspects of
farming, such as ploughing the land, digging the drains and repairing
the hedges.
• Women have also assumed a leading role in the rapid growth of
aquaculture (fish, shrimps, mussel, seaweed, crab fattening), with their
participation along the aquaculture value chains (production,
transforming, and marketing) higher than in capture fisheries.
• In sri lanka, 30% of those engaged in the production and breeding of
ornamental fish are women (fao 2012).
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19. Seaweed culture
Crab fattening
Vallaipaadu,
Mannar
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Source: Uthayan ,
Saktheena.G, 23/10/2016

20. Women’s role in resource management &
decision making
• In Sri Lanka women are poorly represented and seldom
included in decision-making processes with regard to
fishery and resource management in particular.
• Few women participate in the official discourse on the
fisheries, and it seems that women in fisheries lack
access to physical and capital resources, to decision-
making and leadership positions, to training and formal
education.
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21. Gender Equality
• Women make up an important part of the fishing sector, particularly in small-scale
fisheries, and increasingly in capture fishing and other activities. By acknowledging
the role they play, better management and development strategies and
interventions can be developed that address all of the activities in the sector, not
just those carried out by men.
• Women make significant contributions to fishery-related activities other than
fishing. They play the major role in processing fish and fishery products, as well as
in marketing. Although these roles are often very different to those of men, they
are integral parts of the industry. Ignoring these activities means ignoring a large
portion of the sector.
• The different work done by women generates different kinds of knowledge.
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22. • The under-representation of women in decision-making limits the use of their
expertise and knowledge.
• The number of women holding managerial posts with decision- making powers
is very low. Many women in fisheries have low self-esteem, possibly reflecting
social values in those settings that hold men to be superior. This reduces
women’s involvement and limits the ability for women to be empowered and
contribute to the fullest of their capacity.
• Women don’t usually participate in meetings held by fishermen’s organizations.
Most fishing projects are male-oriented, and women’s participation is limited
with respect to planning, programming and management. As a result,
consideration of women’s knowledge and needs is limited, which ultimately
limits the effectiveness of such plans and programmes, etc.
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23. Policies & Programms
• Increasing awareness of gender issues and ensuring that approaches
improve the quality of life for women in fisheries.
• Gathering information and developing research programmes that
systematically tackle gender issues and women’s participation and
integration in fisheries development.
• Recognizing the important role that women play in guaranteeing
household food security and well-being.
• Developing marketing by providing further support in different areas
such as improving women’s access to markets and storage of fish.
Although we must be aware that successful projects may increase
male migration into an area, to the detriment of women fishers.
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24. • Facilitating access to fish resources. Rights, access and
control of resources are central to successful fisheries
development. However, women’s entitlements are
frequently ignored. This situation must be addressed
explicitly in order for the full potential of women’s
contributions to be realized.
• Encouraging the participation of women and women’s
groups in decision-making processes at both community
level and government level.
• Providing appropriate training, designed to target women
in fisheries. It’s important to ensure that training is
accessible to women so that they can improve their
productivity and the quality of their products.
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25. Conclusion
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26. References
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adjustment policies in the Third World, Macmillan.
FAO (1995). Women, agriculture and rural development: National sectoral
report for the Philippines, prepared under the auspices of FAO's
programme of assistance in support of rural women in preparation of the
Fourth World Conference of Women, FAO, Rome.
Goetz, Anne Marie (1997). Introduction: Getting institutions right for
women in development, In Anne Marie Goetz (ed.) Getting institutions right
for women in development, Zed Books, London.
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