Misunderstandings in fisheries: an ethnography of regulative categories and communication around Gansbaai and Dyer Island

In the context of wide-spread, world-wide declines in fish stocks, such as the inshore fishery in the Benguela ecosystem along Gansbaai, fishers in Gansbaai partly rely on the availability of small pelagic fish (sardine and anchovy). However, fishers also hand-line and angle actively, 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, quotas and more recently the rise of protected areas such as Marine Protected Areas ... This project relates the situation of Gansbaai fishers in the face of a possible experimental closure of the waters surrounding nearby Dyer Island to purse seining, proposed in support of the conservation of African penguins.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Social Anthropology

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• Ragaller, Sven

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Green, Lesley
• Jarre, Astrid

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11940

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11940