small-scale fisheries are typically characterized by remote landing sites and sporadic decentralized post-harvest and marketing activties that hinder efforts to collect data illustrating their scope impact importance and economic value this substantial lack of data causes fisheries policies across the globe to neglect small-scale fisheries and generally hampers efforts to ensure their long-term ecological sustainability and resilience moreover because the contribution of small-scale fisheries to local is often poorly quantified they are habitually overlook at the national policy level in effect small-scale fishers who are typically already disadvantaged by their socioeconomic political cultural and physical remoteness are often further marginalized by national fisheries policies cultural and physical remoteness are often further marginalized by national fisheries policies that typically favor large-scale industrialized fishing sectors