80 percent of fish contribution to the GDP is coming from small-scale fishing community. Female partners are claimed for 51 present of labour in the fish processing sector. They are engage in fish processing and fishery business. But this community is socially disorganized and is suffering from lack of basic needs, social depressions and cast discrimination. Therefore there is no sustainable fisheries productivity and social cohesion.

In the fishing community one of six women (1:6) is a destitute due to the loss of their husband during fishing, alcohol addiction, insurgency during 1988-1999 in South and on going war in the North and Eastern parts of the country. Most of the widows are of the age group of 22-45. This is the productive life age for any women in the society. These widows are the breadwinners of the family and must feed 3-4 mouths and with no proper skills they have to engage in odd jobs such as mending nets, making dry fish selling fish road cleaning, working as domestic servants under laborious working conditions in the middle class families in the cities. Their earnings are not sufficient to maintain the family. There is no job security for them and at most of the work places these destitute women are faced sexual harassments. Malnutrition is very high among these widows because they are satisfied with one meal per day. 83 % of destitute women are suffering from vitamin A deficiency and anaemia.  The second group that the Federation activities have focused is needy women and children. 82 percent of fisher folk are living in poverty. Family poverty directly affects women and the small children. Breadwinner’s low earning capacity is the main root course .It result in malnutrition and lack of basic needs. To eradicate malnutrition and to provide basic needs the main requirements are job modification and new skills for women for additional income process and nutritional meals for children. 

The third activity under the fisheries social development is socialization and modern self-employment for youth. The youth in the fishing community are badly neglected. One of eight (1:8) school age children does not go to school due to lack of food, text books and cloth. The youth who completed the secondary education, lacks jobs and social opportunities. Only 0.1% of youth go for higher education in the fishing community. They do not have alternative job opportunities. But the younger generation is considered as the future proprietors of the resources and leaders of the country.