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SAMUDRA Monograph
OBJECTIVES
The study has a number of objectives – long-, medium- and short-term —
which are as follows:
LONG-TERM OBJECTIVES:
(i) to better understand the status of artisanal/small-scale fisheries and
fishworkers;
(ii) to establish the pre-eminence of artisanal over industrial fisheries;
and
(iii) to promote more equitable and sustainable fisheries based on artisanal
models.
MEDIUM-TERM OBJECTIVES:
(i) to provide baseline information on the status of artisanal/small-scale
fisheries and fishworkers, especially with regard to technical, social
and economic aspects;
(ii) to establish the intrinsic advantages of artisanal fisheries with regard
to equity and sustainability;
(iii) to establish the main threats to artisanal fisheries; and
(iv) to provide information to facilitate the ongoing work of fishworker
organizations and to help build up new fishworker organizations.
SHORT-TERM OBJECTIVES:
(i) to document the economic and social status of fishworkers;
(ii) to document the status of artisanal/small-scale fisheries;
(ii) to develop reliable guidelines to understand artisanal fisheries;
(iii) to study the impact of industrial fisheries on the artisanal sector;
(iv) to explore the inshore fishers’ potential to harvest fisheries resources,
which are currently harvested by industrial fisheries; and
(v) to explore the prospects, potentials and problems for sustaining and
developing artisanal fisheries.
METHODOLOGY
The study comprised primarily a desk search of secondary data from research
reports, scientific publications, laws and regulations and journals, supported
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