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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Fishing rights"”.
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Examining the interrelationship between competition law, the allocation of fishing rights, and transformation in South Africa’s fishing industry
The fishing industry in South Africa is distinguished by the various species of fish that can be caught and by the scale of operations required to undertake the various type of fishing activities. Furthermore, the industry is broadly divided into the commercial sector and the small-scale sector. …
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Belonging to the West Coast : an ethnography of St Helena Bay in the context of marine resource scarcity
… jobs in the formal industry and small-scale fishing rights have become circumscribed. In the neighbourhood of Laingville, historically-contingent racial categories have become reinvigorated in a context resource scarcity.
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Political prospects for an ocean regime
… scope is not intended, therefore no treatment of fishing rights, limitation of nuclear arms, extensive oil deposits at centers are attempted except as they specifically relate to the proposed ocean regime and its jurisdiction.
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Misunderstandings in fisheries: an ethnography of regulative categories and communication around Gansbaai and Dyer Island
… and more recently practiced a range of other fishing techniques. Ten weeks of fieldwork in Gansbaai allowed the intertwined lived reality of fishers’ every- day practices to come to the fore. Regulation of techniques and target species has curtailed fishers through restrictive fishing rights, …
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Uneasy Waters: The Night Riders at Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee, 1908
… emphasizing the night riders' demand for fishing rights. In response, Governor Malcolm Patterson called out the militia to suppress the uprising and advocated for state acquisition of the lake as a means to prevent further violence. In the accepted historical narrative, the uprising at …
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Big hopes for small-scale fishers: a critical review of South Africa's small-scale fishing policy and regulations
… and the Regulations relating to Small Scale Fishing (8 March 2016). Through a paradigm shift in small-scale fisheries governance, the regime seeks to put an end to the marginalisation and exclusion of these fishers from the fishing rights allocation process that has persisted in the absence …
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An assessment of policy responses to the collapse of the West Coast rock lobster stock off Doringbaai
… the economic driver has traditionally been the fishing industry. Employment opportunities were largely located either on board the vessels or in a fish-processing factory which in some smaller centres was a monopsonistic employer. The last two decades have seen this system under threat. Fish …
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Redressing the Past: A Critical Legal Assessment of """"quota"""" allocations in post-apartheid South Africa under the Marine Living Resources Act 18 of 1998 in the hake deep-sea trawl and West Coast rock lobster near-shore sectors
… This is particularly relevant in the fishing industry where people have been dependant on marine living resources, but under Apartheid, were restricted from accessing these resources. The manner and extent to which the South African government seeks to address the injustices of the …
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An ethnography of St Helena Bay - A West Coast Town in the age of neoliberalism
… jobs in the formal industry and small-scale fishing rights have become circumscribed. In the neighbourhood of Laingville, historically-contingent racial categories have become reinvigorated in a context resource scarcity. An autochthonous cultural heritage related to the West Coast has become …
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Understanding the livelihoods of small-scale fisheries in Lamberts Bay : implications for the new small-scale fisheries policy
… implementation. The adoption of the individual rights approach embodied by the individual quota (IQ) system in the post-apartheid reforms has led to divisions within the community. Fishing rights benefited a small elite and disenfranchised many more fishers for whom fishing was a livelihood, but …
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Social vulnerability of fishing communities in the southern Cape to change, including additional pressures of COVID-19
… in the southern Cape, particularly in the two fishing towns of Bitouville and Melkhoutfontein, to better understand how challenges impact the ability of SSFs to support their livelihoods and how this has changed over the last 10 years. This research made use of a mixed-method technique that …
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A glade in the kelp forest: socio-spatial opportunities for multi-trophic aquaculture Hout Bay, South Africa
… Under the same Act mentioned above, quotas of fishing rights have been distributed between the commercial, small-scale and subsistence fisheries. Criticism of this legislation is that it does not actually acknowledge the latter, and commercial fisheries receive disproportionately more quotas …
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Systems modelling of the South African offshore demersal hake trawl fishery : an economic perspective
… clusters, formed through consolidation of fishing rights and a variety of catch-share agreements, have been identified. Based on their size and operations they have been categorized as small, medium, large and super-cluster types. Fishing vessel numbers have declined since 1978 to …
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A spark for collective action: Challenges and opportunities for self-governance in temporary fisher-designed Fish Refuges in Mexico
… fisheries is unresolved. Because small-scale fishing is diverse and hard to control, one management approach places fishers at the center of decision-making. Common-pool resource theory has assembled a large body of evidence that resource users, without top-down state control, are able to …
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Assessing the contribution of interim relief measures to food security and income of small-scale fishers of Ocean View, Western Cape
… fish consumption patterns, income earned from fishing, fishing nature, participation in management and decision-making to document fisher perceptions on management of resources they harvest. Informal discussions were also held with key informants from the community. The Minister of …