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Pacific Community, Fisheries Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystems Division, Information Section, SPC, BP D5, 98848 Noumea Cedex, New Caledonia.
Produced with financial assistance from the Australian Government, the European Union, France and the New Zealand Aid Programme.
Editor's note
Most will agree that the global COVID-19 pandemic has impacted people all over the world, especially women and girls. While the Pacific remained vigilant throughout 2020, the knock-on effects on fisheries and aquaculture are starting to emerge and be better understood. Some countries such as Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu, were also hit by category 5 Cyclone Harold, which forced people to manage a natural disaster in the midst of a pandemic. Farther afield, Mauritius dealt with a large and devastating oil spill during the COVID-19 pandemic, and in this edition of the Women in Fisheries Information Bulletin Josheena Naggea shares with us how these two disasters have impacted women gleaners and their families, an overlooked and neglected subgroup of Mauritian fishers. While there have been some efforts to look at the impact of COVID-19 on fisheries and aquaculture, there is limited information available and many are still writing up their research. Dr Kate Barclay touches on this in her article on gender and tuna industries in the Pacific. I continue to encourage those who are doing work in these spaces to consider sharing their methods, approaches and findings so that others in the region and beyond can benefit. And do not forget to look at the impacts of COVID-19 through a gender lens! Enjoy this 33rd issue of the Pacific Community’s Women in Fisheries Information Bulletin, which includes 12 original articles from Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Nigeria and Mauritius. We welcome a number of new lead authors to the bulletin from the Pacific and beyond – Ayodele Oloko, Josephine Kalsuak, Marama Tuivuna, Rooti Tioti, Josheena Naggea and Stuart Campbell. Happy International Women’s Day!
Sangeeta Mangubhai
Contents
Rooti Tioti, Owen Li and Aurélie Delisle (pdf: 660 KB)
Natalie Makhoul (pdf: 879 KB)
Sangeeta Mangubhai and Sarah Lawless (pdf: 715 KB)
Stuart J. Campbell, Eva Medianti, Ade Yuliani, Raymond Jakub, Haris Setiawan, Emilio de la Rosa and Walter Suherfian (pdf: 1 MB)
Ayodele Oloko, Kafayat Fakoya and Sarah Harper (pdf: 394 KB)
Josheena Naggea, Emilie Wiehe and Sandy Monrose (pdf: 1 MB)
Bulou Vitukawalu, Ana Ciriyawa,1 Rosi Batibasaga and Fareea Ma (pdf: 618 KB)
Marama Tuivuna (pdf: 375 KB)
Sangeeta Mangubhai (pdf: 300 KB)