and the challenges they face to increase resiliency and improve their lives for the better. This book provides a global perspective, situating small-scale fisheries within the broad academic discourse on poverty, fisheries management and development.

Chapter 1 - Setting the Stage By Svein Jentoft and Arne EideIntroduction.- Chapter 2 - Avoiding Poverty Chapter 2 - Avoiding Poverty Distributing Wealth in FisheriesBy Arne Eide, Maarten Bavinck and Jesper Raakjær.-   Chapter 3 - Situating Poverty A Chain Analysis of Small-Scale FisheriesBy Ratana Chuenpagdee and Svein Jentoft.-  Chapter 4 - The Meaning of PovertyConceptual Issues in Small-Scale Fisheries ResearchBy Svein Jentoft and Georges Midré.-  Chapter 5 - Living on the MarginThe Poverty-Vulnerability Nexus in the Small-Scale Fisheries of BangladeshBy Mohammad Mahmudul Islam.- Chapter 6 - Occupation of Last Resort?Small-Scale Fishing in Lake Victoria, TanzaniaBy Paul O. Onyango.- Chapter 7 - Vanished Prosperity Poverty and Marginalization in a Small Polish Fishing CommunityBy Boguslaw Marciniak.- Chapter 8 - More than Income Alone The Anlo-Ewe Beach Seine Fishery in GhanaBy Marloes Kraan.- Chapter 9 - Wealth, Poverty and Immigration The Role of Institutions in the Fisheries of Tamil Nadu, IndiaBy Maarten Bavinck.- Chapter 10 - Addressing VulnerabilityCoping Strategies of Fishing Communities in Yucatan, MexicoBy Silvia Salas, Maiken Bjørkan, Felipe Bobadilla and Miguel A. Cabrera.-Chapter 11 - Through Boom and BustCoping with Poverty in Sea Snail Fisheries on the Turkish Black Sea CoastBy Ståle Knudsen and Hakan Koçak.- Chapter 12 - Community ResponseDecline of the Chambo in Lake Malawi’s Southeast ArmBy Mafaniso Hara.- Chapter 13 - To Make a Fishing LifeCommunity Empowerment in Small-Scale Fisheries in the Pearl Lagoon, NicaraguaByMiguel González.- Chapter 14 - Learning from the ExpertsAttaining Sufficiency in Small-Scale Fishing Communities in ThailandBy Ratana Chuenpagdee and Kungwan Juntarashote.- Chapter 15 - Facilitating ChangeA Mekong Vietnamese Small-Scale Fishing CommunityBy Kim Anh Thi Nguyen and Ola Flaaaten.- Chapter 16 - Creating Action SpaceSmall-Scale Fisheries Policy Reform in South AfricaBy Moenieba Isaacs.-  Chapter 17 - Building ResilienceFisheries Cooperatives in Southern Sri LankaBy Oscar Amarasinghe and Maarten Bavinck.-Chapter 18 - Moving out of PovertyConditions for Wealth Creation in Small-Scale Fisheries in MozambiqueBy Ana Menezes, Arne Eide and Jesper Raakjær.- Chapter 19 - The Merits of ConsensusSmall-Scale Fisheries as a Livelihood Buffer in Livingston Town, GuatemalaBy Hector Andrade and Georges Midré.- Chapter 20 - A Better FutureProspects for Small-Scale Fishing PeopleBy Svein Jentoft, Arne Eide, Maarten Bavinck, Ratana Chuenpagdee and Jesper Raakjær.- Biographies of the PovFish Team.- Index of Keywords.                  

 Small-scale fisheries are a major source of food and employment around the world. Yet, many small-scale fishers work in conditions that are neither safe nor secure. Millions of them are poor, and often they are socially and politically marginalized. Macro-economic and institutional mechanisms are essential to address these poverty and vulnerability problems; however, interventions at the local community level are also necessary. This requires deep understanding of what poverty means to the fishers, their families and communities; how they cope with it; and the challenges they face to increase resiliency and improve their lives for the better. This book provides a global perspective, situating small-scale fisheries within the broad academic discourse on poverty, fisheries management and development. In-depth case studies from fifteen countries in Latin America, Europe, South and Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, demonstrate the enormously complex ecological, economic, social, cultural and political contexts of this sector. Conclusions for policy-making, formulated as a joint statement by the authors, argue that fisheries development, poverty alleviation, and resource management must be integrated within a comprehensive governance approach that also looks beyond fisheries.  The scientific editors, Svein Jentoft and Arne Eide, are both with the Norwegian College of Fishery Science, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, University of Tromsø, Norway.

From the book reviews:“The book provides ‘a mosaic of small-scale fishers’ stories, situations and coping strategies’ that will interest many social historians. The authors are sociologists, cultural anthropologists, geographers and interdisciplinary social scientists, rather than historians but most of the case-study-based chapters contain a background chronology which serves as a useful entry point for anyone looking to develop a deeper historical analysis of theses fishing-dependent peoples and regions.” (Edward H. Allison, International Journal of Maritime History, June, 2013)

Addresses how small-scale fisheries contribute to poverty alleviation, community development and food security around the world. Presents a remarkable mosaic of small-scale fishers’ stories, situations, coping strategies, and continued vulnerability. Provides a clear understanding of the many dimensions of poverty and vulnerability; and the complex political, economic, social, cultural and ecological contexts that small-scale fisheries operate in around the globe.