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Doug Butterworth MARAM ( Marine Resource Assessment and Management Group )

MARINE LIVING RESOURCES AMENDMENT BILL . COMMENTS. Doug Butterworth MARAM ( Marine Resource Assessment and Management Group ) Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa. AT ISSUE. ADDITIONAL OBJECTIVES - SECTION 2 CONCERN

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Doug Butterworth MARAM ( Marine Resource Assessment and Management Group )

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  1. MARINE LIVING RESOURCES AMENDMENT BILL . COMMENTS Doug Butterworth MARAM (Marine Resource Assessment and Management Group) Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa

  2. AT ISSUE ADDITIONAL OBJECTIVES - SECTION 2 CONCERN THE NEED FOR CLEAR WORDING TO MINIMISE POSSIBLE FUTURE MIS-INTERPRETATION OR MIS-IMPLEMENTATION

  3. CLAUSE 2(k) • “the need to promote equitable access to ..” • “equitable access” necessarily implies open access • Open access necessarily leads to commercial/ subsistence fishery resource extinction (Gordon) • Conflicts with rest of MLRA; also South Africa’s ratification of WSSD, UNCLOS, 1995 UN Fish Stocks Agreement, FAO code of conduct for responsible fisheries • “the need to promote equitable opportunities for access to ..”

  4. CLAUSE 2(l) • “the need to recognise approaches to fisheries management which contribute to food security, socio-economic development and the alleviation of poverty; and” • Fisheries management already recognises these needs • Fisheries management involves trade-offs amongst conflicting objectives, each given a desired weighting • “the need to give due weight in fisheries management to the objectives of contributingto food security, socio-economic development and the alleviation of poverty; and”

  5. CLAUSE 2(m) • “the need to recognise that fish may be allocated through a multi-species approach” • The “multi-species” terminology has a standard meaning in fisheries. • This would be generally be read as advocating a particular approach to the way catch limits are computed, which is not the intent. • “the possible need for allocation of more than one species, rather than a single species only, to certain applicants for fishing rights”

  6. Thank you for your attention

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