A cautious fisheries management policy in South Africa: the fisheries for rock lobster

Andrew C Cockcroft and Andrew I L Payne

Marine Policy, 1999, vol. 23, issue 6, 587-600

Abstract: In South Africa, political emancipation has resulted in a new fisheries policy which is embodied in the Marine Living Resources Act of 1998. The pillars of the new policy are sustainability, equity and stability within the industry. We look particularly at a suite of mainly accessible species, the rock lobsters (truly spiny lobsters), at their management, at control measures, at realities of resource status and harvesting, at naturally occurring ecosystem stimuli, and investigate whether the policy can achieve what it aims to do, to provide more for more South Africans at levels at least equal to what they do today. Put simply, are the political aims and the sustainability aims of the new policy mutually achievable?

Keywords: Fisheries; management; Precautionary; principle; Rock; lobster (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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