Veikila Vuki: Cultivating the sharing of information on aqua women
Category:UpdatesAwF is thrilled to announce Dr. Veikila Vuki as the Woman of the Month for February 2016!
There are numerous challenges facing women striving to make social changes in the aquaculture and fisheries arena. Firstly, female advocates, experts and researchers are scarce in this domain and are often unique in their institutes; secondly they are nearly always isolated from each other. Keeping up to date with new information and what is going elsewhere can be difficult given the constraints of their heavy everyday workload. In addition, few active networks exist to foster information pathways. One of the few standing information networks is in the central and western Pacific, where women are most actively engaged in fisheries and aquaculture. The conduit for this information exchange is the Secretariat for the Pacific Community’s (SPC) Women in Fisheries Information Bulletin (WIF) http://www.spc.int/coastfish/en/publications/bulletins/women-in-fisheries.html), which has been ongoing since 1997.