Catherine M. Marquette,^* Kwame A. Koranteng,^** Ragnhild Overå,^*** Ellen Bortei-Doku Aryeetey<sup>****


*</sup>Catherine M. Marquette participated in the project on which this paper is based while a Research Associate at the Christian Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. She is a demographer specializing in population and environment relationships and has carried out research in Ghana, Zimbabwe, and the Ecuadorian Amazon. She currently is co-coordinator of the Population Environment Research Network of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) on Global Environment Change. Her address: IUSSP/IHDP Population and Environment Research Network, 4611 Bayard Boulevard, Bethesda MD 20816, USA. cmarquette@earthlink.net
^**Kwame Koranteng is the Director of the Marine Fisheries Research Division (MFRD) at the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in Ghana. He is a specialist in fishery science, biometry, fish stock assessment, and fishery statistics. For the past 20 years he has been working in marine and brackish water fisheries assessment and management for government and nongovernmental organizations, including the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). He is a member of the Ghana Science Association and the New York Academy of Sciences. His address: Marine Fisheries Research Division, Ministry of Food and Agriculture, P.O. Box BT-62, Ghana. kwamek@africaonline.com.gh
^***Ragnhild Overå is a research associate and human geographer at the Christian Michelsen Institute in Bergen Norway. Her specialization is in African fisheries, gender, market trade, small-scale entrepreneurship, and resource management, particularly in Ghana and Zambia. Her research has focused on the interconnectedness of social and economic relations in the strategies of entrepreneurs in processes of technological and economic change in small-scale fisheries. Her work focuses on the role of women and of credit in fish-marketing systems in Africa. Her address: Chr. Michelsen Institute, Development Studies and Human Rights, P.O. Box 6033 Postterminalen, N-5892 Bergen, Norway. ragnhild.Overaa@CMI.NO
^****Ellen Bortei-Doku Aryeetey is a sociologist and senior research fellow at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana. She has undertaken research and training in social policy issues, community development, gender analysis, and poverty analysis. Studies in community-based fisheries have been one of her long-standing interests. In relation to this she has served on various committees involved in planning and designing fisheries resource management in Ghana and elsewhere. Her address: Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana, P.O. Box LG-74. ebortei@ghana.com