Coastal and fisheries governance Archives

Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystems - Component C

Socio-Economic Baseline Survey of Coastal Communities in the BCLME

Marine Protected Areas Management Training Course

The establishment of marine protected areas (MPAs) is one of the tools available to support successful marine conservation. Although nineteen MPAs have been declared along South Africa’s coastline, their effectiveness has been limited due to, amongst other things, a lack of management plans, and relatively low levels of understanding of marine issues and legislation.

Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystems - Component A

Review and audit of the institutional arrangements that impact on the Artisanal fisheries sector in the BCLME region

Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystems - Component B

Overview and Analysis of Social, Economic and Fisheries Information to Promote Artisanal Fisheries Management in the BCLME Region

Coastal and fisheries co-management research: Overview

In South Africa, new policies and legislation have been introduced to manage coastal and fisheries resources and alternate approaches to governance are being sought. At policy level, attempts have been made to move away from a top-down authoritarian models of management to those that foster participation co-operation and joint responsibility for national resource management. However, the challenge is to put policy into practice.

Coastal and Fisheries Co-Management Research: Co-Management of Bait-Collecting Fishers Working in the Swartkops Estuary

This project aims to develop and implement appropriate co-management arrangements at three pilot sites in South Africa. The Swartkops estuary is one of the pilot sites. In terms of the co-management guidelines developed by Hauck and Sowman (2005), the Swartkops bait fishery has moved through the “Planning and Development” stage of problem recognition, feasibility analysis and preliminary assessment. It is now moving towards the stage of “Implementation”. This entails participatory research, training and capacity building, developing the co-management plan, and developing & implementing the co-management agreement.