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Towards improved compliance in small-scale fisheries in South Africa

Towards improved compliance in small-scale fisheries in South Africa
In South Africa, the problem of fisheries non-compliance has been highlighted as a priority issue for management authorities.

However, there is a lack of understanding of the underlying factors that lead to non-compliance and appropriate strategies that could be used to enhance resource sustainability at the same time as protecting livelihoods.  The main aim of this 3 year research project is to develop and apply an analytical framework for understanding, analysing and addressing compliance issues in small-scale fisheries in South Africa.

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Key Objectives:

 

1. To develop a preliminary analytical framework for understanding and addressing non-compliance of small-scale fisheries;

2. To conduct primary research in case studies in South Africa in order to:

2.1. identify the key factors fuelling non-compliance within small-scale fisheries;

2.2. identify and analyse the impact and outcomes of non-compliance;

2.3. determine the factors that lead to compliance (including voluntary compliance);

2.4. identify responses to non-compliance from government, non-governmental organisations and fishers and to identify the strategies that have been implemented by these groups to enhance compliance;

2.5. identify the impacts (both positive and negative) of these strategies on levels of compliance;

3. To refine and finalise the analytical framework to ensure its applicability in South Africa for analysing non-compliance and for developing appropriate mechanisms to enhance compliance;

4. To develop policy recommendations and guidelines for South Africa to effectively respond to non-compliance in small-scale fisheries.
Publications and Reports
Policy Brief - towards small-scale fisheries compliance in SA
Rethinking Small Scale Fisheries Compliance - reference: M. Hauck. 2008. ‘Rethinking small-scale fisheries compliance’. Marine Policy 32: 635-642.


M Hauck and R Hasler. 2006. NORSA Project Workshop Report. Environmental Evaluation Unit, University of Cape Town.
M Hauck and R Hasler. 2006. Towards improved compliance in small-scale fisheries in South Africa: Background research report. Environmental Evaluation Unit, University of Cape Town.

Other relevant publications

M. Hauck. 2007. ‘Non-compliance in small-scale fisheries: a threat to security?’, In P. Beirne and N. South (eds), Issues in Green Criminology: Confronting harms against environments, humanity and other animals. Willan Publishing: London, UK.

Hauck, M. and M. Kroese. 2006.  Fisheries compliance in South Africa: A decade of challenges and reform 1994-2004. Marine Policy 30(1): 74-83.

M. Hauck, M. Hara and D. Mather. 2005. Economic Aspects of MCS South Africa: Compliance/Legitimacy Investigation. SADC Monitoring Control and Surveillance of Fisheries Activities Programme. Lux Development, Windhoek, Namibia.

Hauck, M. & R. Hector. 2003. Towards abalone and rock lobster co-management in the Hangklip-Kleinmond Area. In: M. Hauck and M. Sowman, Waves of Change: Coastal and Fisheries Co-management in South Africa, pp. 247-268. University of Cape Town Press: Cape Town.

Hauck, M. 1999. Regulating Marine Resources in South Africa: the case of the abalone fishery: 211-228.  In Glazewski, J & Bradfield, G. (eds)  Environmental Justice and the Legal Process. Cape Town: Juta.

Hauck, M and N. A. Sweijd.  1999.  A Case Study of Abalone Poaching in South Africa and its Impact on Fisheries Management.  ICES Journal of Marine Science 56: 1024-1032.

Hauck, M.  1999.  Seawatch: Civil Society’s Role in Combating Environmental Crime.  South African Journal of Environmental Law and Policy 6(1): 101-119.

Conference Papers
  • M. Hauck. 2009. ‘Small-scale fisheries compliance: from criminal justice to social justice’. Paper presented at the International Association for the Study of Commons, 20-22 January, 2009, Cape Town, South Africa.
  • M. Hauck 2007. ‘A preliminary framework for understanding small-scale fisheries compliance in South Africa’. Paper presented at the MARE conference ‘People and the Sea’, 5-7 July 2007, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Theses
  • M. Hauck. Submitted. Rethinking small-scale fisheries compliance: from criminal justice to social justice. Doctor of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Cape Town. [Supervisors: M. Sowman and J. Raakjær]
  • K. Neethling. 2008. An overview and analysis of the decision to close the abalone fishery in Kleinmond, South Africa. MPhil thesis in Environmental Management, Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Cape Town. [Supervisors: M. Sowman]
  • N. Omari. 2006. Legal pluralism in environmental management: informal rules and non-compliance in the Karbonkelberg Marine Protected Area. MPhil thesis in Environmental Management, Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Cape Town. [Supervisors: R. Hasler and M. Hauck]
  • Hauck, M. 2008. Rethinking small-scale fisheries compliance. Marine Policy 32(4): 635-642.
Project team
EEU Researchers:
Maria Hauck
Richard Hasler
Merle Sowman
Samantha Williams

International partners:
Stig Gezelius (NILF, Norway);
Maarten Bavinck (MARE, the Netherlands);
Han van Dijk (Wageningen University, the Netherlands);
Jesper Rakjaer-Nielsen (IFM, Denmark)
Key Collaborators
MARE: Centre for Maritime Research
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IFM: Institute for Fisheries Management and Coastal Community Development
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Funders

Aspects of this project are being funded by:

NORSA (South African and Norwegian Government Partnership);
SANPAD (South Africa – Netherlands Research Programme on Alternatives in Development; link

National Research Foundation (South Africa) link
Funders
Aspects of this project are being funded by:

NORSA (South African and Norwegian Government Partnership);

SANPAD (South Africa – Netherlands Research Programme on Alternatives in Development; link

National Research Foundation (South Africa) link
Time frame
End 2005 – Mid 2008