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Moenieba Isaacs

INSTITUTE FOR POVERTY, LAND AND AGRARIAN STUDIES (PLAAS). Small-scale Fishers: Perspectives on enforcement and implementation Fish Symposium, Institute of Marine and Environmental Law (IMEL). Moenieba Isaacs. Outline. Small-scale fisheries Compliance Co-management Implementation.

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Moenieba Isaacs

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  1. INSTITUTE FOR POVERTY, LAND AND AGRARIAN STUDIES (PLAAS) Small-scale Fishers: Perspectives on enforcement and implementationFish Symposium, Institute of Marine and Environmental Law (IMEL) Moenieba Isaacs

  2. Outline • Small-scale fisheries • Compliance • Co-management • Implementation

  3. Situating Small-scale Policy • Small-scale fisheries policy – court case in 2004, out of court settlement in 2007, Interim rights allocation, New small-scale policy in 2012 • Amendment of Draft Marine Living Resource Amendment Bill 2013 to accommodate SCF • Rights Allocation Policies (Quotas) • FAO Guidelines on Small Scale Fisheries (Draft)

  4. Small-scale fisheries in South Africa • Paradigm shift from Individual • Transferable Quotas (neo-liberal, • Privatised rights) • Collective Rights Allocation • Creation of a legal entities • Multi-species • Preferential Access to inshore • species Versus ITQ system is mainstreamed in fisheries (Big companies, BEE (race and gender, new entrants, and interim rights).

  5. Governance, Monitoring and Enforcement (Small-scale Policy) • Co-management – people centred and community oriented • Promotes – social equity, justice and collective governance of marine living resources • Empowerment of fishers to participated in developing, implementing, and evaluating fishery policies and management plans • Devolution of some management decisions to communities and inclusion of provincial and local government. making powers

  6. Zoning and Species

  7. Conclusion • Small-scale implementation Plan • Type of rights allocation • Integrating the current rights holders into the framework of small-scale policy • Differentiate between the corporate and non-corporate value chains (nutrition and food security).

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