Recognizing Women’s Wellbeing and Contribution to Social Resilience in Fisheries

Building social resilience is important for fishing communities, which globally face unprecedented and environmental change. While women’s direct indirect contribution to economies increasingly recognized, their the of fisheries remains under-examined. Using interview focus group data, we investigate role in supporting UK communities examine implications wellbeing. Our findings reveal that beyond economic viability businesses, women help maintain fabric nurture physical mental wellbeing families, often at a cost own material, emotional Tensions between household or community level individual have policy, rarely considers wider context fisheries. We identify ways roles can be included decision-making policy.