In response to ongoing economic downturns in the small-scale fishing sector, there have been calls for fishing businesses to add value to fishing catches. Whilst such activities would have gendered implications, such proposals often do not consider the gendered contexts in which entrepreneurship is placed, nor how this form of entrepreneurship works for the women involved. The article draws on in-depth narrative interviews with women in fishing families in England and Wales who have started, initiated or explored entrepreneurial opportunities to examine (i) whether entrepreneurship enables a (re)negotiation of gender relations within families and (ii) how entrepreneurship develops over the lifecourse. The research is conceptually framed through the literature on women's ‘entrepreneurship’, family embedded perspectives of entrepreneurship, ‘Mumpreneurship’ combined with a lifecourse approach. I found that although women's traditional invisibility often became reproduced through their entrepreneurship in fishing family contexts, women's fisheries entrepreneurship challenged traditional gender relations. In becoming entrepreneurs women negotiated their entrepreneurship with other gendered roles, such as motherhood, over the lifecourse. I argue that shifting the discourse from fisheries diversification to entrepreneurship make it possible to take women seriously by fully viewing them as fisheries workers in their own right in both research and policy.

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隐形（女）企业家？将讨论从渔业多样化转向创业

为应对小规模渔业部门持续的经济下滑，人们呼吁渔业企业为渔获物增加价值。虽然此类活动会产生性别影响，但此类提案通常没有考虑创业所处的性别背景，也没有考虑这种形式的创业对所涉女性的作用。本文利用对英格兰和威尔士渔业家庭妇女的深度叙事访谈，她们已经开始、发起或探索创业机会，以研究 (i) 创业是否能够（重新）协商家庭内的性别关系，以及 (ii)企业家精神是在整个生命过程中发展起来的。该研究的概念是通过关于女性“创业”、家庭嵌入的创业观点、“Mumpreneurship”与生命历程方法相结合。我发现，虽然女性的传统隐身常常通过她们在渔业家庭环境中的创业得以再现，但女性渔业创业挑战了传统的性别关系。在成为企业家的过程中，女性在整个生命历程中与其他性别角色（例如母性）进行谈判。我认为，将讨论从渔业多样化转移到创业，可以通过在研究和政策方面将妇女完全视为渔业工作者来认真对待妇女。渔业创业挑战了传统的性别关系。在成为企业家的过程中，女性在整个生命历程中与其他性别角色（例如母性）进行谈判。我认为，将讨论从渔业多样化转移到创业，可以通过在研究和政策方面将妇女完全视为渔业工作者来认真对待妇女。渔业创业挑战了传统的性别关系。在成为企业家的过程中，女性在整个生命历程中与其他性别角色（例如母性）进行谈判。我认为，将讨论从渔业多样化转移到创业，可以通过在研究和政策方面将妇女完全视为渔业工作者来认真对待妇女。