Fisherfolk

Technical resources on boat-building and associated topics, from Practical Action and FAO:

Boatbuilding

• Plywood Boat Building in South India ITDGPractical Action Technical Brief (PDF, 390k)
• Small is Difficult: the pangs and success of small boat technology transfer in South India by Pierre Gillet. A review of ITDGPractical Action's boat-building work in South India (PDF, 427k)
• Boatbuilding Materials for Small-scale Fisheries in India Bay of Bengal Programme Development of Small-scale Fisheries FAO
• Fishing Boat Design: 2 V-bottom Boats of Planked and Plywood Construction by عvind Gulbrandsen, FAO
• Fishing Boat Construction: 3. Building a Ferrocement Fishing Boat by Richard O.N. Riley
• Fishing boat construction: 2 Building a fibreglass fishing boat by Ned Coackley
• Technical Trials of Beachcraft Prototypes in India - BOBP/WP/7 Bay of Bengal Programme Development of Small-scale Fisheries, FAO
• Small Offshore Fishing Boats in Shri Lanka
  by G. Pajot, FAO

Other fishing topics:

• Fisherfolk safeguarding aquatic diversity through fishing techniques ITDGPractical Action booklet (PDF, 209k)
  NB: this is a text-only version. It is hoped to revise this to include some diagrams and illustrations shortly.
• Artificial Reefs and their Placement ITDGPractical Action Technical Brief (PDF, 1.8Mb - NB: very large file)

Links to relevant sites:

• South Indian Federation of Fishermen's Societies - SIFFS
• International Collective in Support of Fishworkers - ICSF
• UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) - Tsunami Reconstruction
• UKabc: Indian Ocean Tsunamis Devastate Fisherfolk
  including Trade and the Tsunami - Trade Justice Movement briefing for Make Poverty History