International Law for Small-Scale Fisheries: Connecting the Ecosystem Approach and Human Rights to Secure Participatory Fisheries Management

This book provides an original and groundbreaking account of the applicability and key contributions of international law to small-scale fisheries, a fisheries subsector that has been historically overlooked by governments and international legal scholarship.

Small-scale fisheries constitute most of the world’s capture fisheries workforce; they sustain the livelihoods of fishers and their communities while building and transmitting traditional knowledge and culture. Significant attention has...