Guest Editorial: Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries – Navigating Change

Abstract

This Special Issue of Asian Fisheries Science journal includes 20 papers and a report based on the presentations and posters of the 4th Global Symposium on Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries (GAF4) held during the 10th Asian Fisheries and Aquaculture Forum, May 2013. GAF4 was the sixth women/gender Symposium organised by the Asian Fisheries Society. For each event, the proceedings or selected papers have been published (Williams et al. 2001; Williams et al. 2002; Choo et al. 2006; Development 2008; Williams et al. 2012a) and in the current Special Issue. Worldwide, this is the longest continuous series documenting women and gender issues by a professional fisheries society.