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Title: | Fishing in a Sea of Sharks - Reconstruction and Development in the South African Fishing Industry |
Author: | Hersoug, Bjorn |
Year: | 1998 |
Periodical: | Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa |
Issue: | 35 |
Pages: | 77-102 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | agricultural policy fisheries Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://d.lib.msu.edu/tran/335/OBJ/download |
Abstract: | Through the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP), programmes for nearly all sectors of the South African economy have been drawn up. In the field of fisheries the original RDP document states that 'the primary objectives of fisheries policy is the upliftment of impoverished coastal communities'. This article is an account of the difficult process of working out a new fisheries policy. It addresses the following questions: What is the background for the new fisheries policy initiative? How was the policy process organized and what is the content of the proposed new fisheries policy, as presented in a document by the Fisheries Policy Development Committee (FPDC) in May 1996? How did the existing stakeholders react in terms of strategies and what is the room for affirmative action? If reallocation of fishing rights and quotas on a grand scale is difficult, how is it possible to make the new policy more legitimate? The conclusion is that the new fisheries policy, as laid down in the FPDC document, has largely the same goals, and the same instruments as before, and is implemented by the old institutional structures. The question is whether the poor coastal communities will accept the deal or consider the 'new policy' illegitimate and continue fishing illegally. Bibliogr., note, ref. |