Fish traders as key actors in fisheries: Gender and adaptive management

Ambio

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 951-962

  Fröcklin, Sara ^a   De La Torre Castro, Maricela ^a   Lindström, Lars ^a   Jiddawi, Narriman S ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Fish market; Fish value chain; Gender analysis; Middlemen; Small scale fisheries; Zanzibar

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING INDUSTRY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; SMALL SCALE INDUSTRY;

TANZANIA; ZANZIBAR ISLAND;

EID: 84890309135     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-013-0451-1     Document Type: Article

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