However, as men traditionally dominate the export-oriented segment of the chain (whereas women are found more in domestic small-scale fish marketing and distribution), upgrading into a fish-processing industry may also magnify existing income disparities between men and women.
The UNIDO programmes to support capacity-building for sustainable industrial development support the development of women's entrepreneurship in the food-processing, textile, fish-processing and handicraft sectors.
The quality of working conditions in the fish-processing industry also raises concerns, although conditions have improved since developed countries imposed higher sanitation and hygiene standards.
In other cases, however, where small-scale fishers sell fish destined for overseas markets, middlemen or fish-processing factories may pay relatively low prices, only marginally higher (or even the same) than those paid by local markets and consumers.
It shows that the expansion of the export-oriented fish-processing industry is likely to generate significant employment opportunities for women (who are 80 per cent of fish processors and 50 per cent of small-scale fish traders).
The relationship between fishmeal and fish-food availability for human consumption is complex: the aquaculture industry has become more efficient in its use of fishmeal (for example, the use of plant-based feed to grow fish or a greater use of fish waste from industrial fish-processing factories: about one quarter of all fishmeal and fish oil comes from offcuts), significant regional variations exist and trade-offs may appear less obvious because of the higher costs in processing fish for human consumption compared to processing fish for fishmeal.
For some countries in which small-scale fishing is not historically abundant, increased foreign fishing and investments in fish-processing factories to supply foreign markets may improve the availability of food locally, in particular where Government programmes redirect fish products from export to local markets.
New Zealand did have an effective mechanism for ensuring that both direct and indirect discrimination were prohibited, as had been illustrated by a recent, widely publicized court case involving a fish-processing company in New Zealand which had divided the work in its processing plant along gender lines, employing only women to perform certain jobs and only men to perform others.
It was a thriving fishing village in Soviet times, with fish-processing factories and even a farm for harvesting the pelts of snow foxes, but it fell into decline in the 1970s with the advent of industrial fishing. The population dropped from more than 6,000, wooden piers crumbled, and fishing boats that once brought back cod were scuttled in the bay where the Teriberka River flows into the sea.
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