Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides an overview of nine coastal and fisheries co-management case studies in South Africa. The approach reflects the worldwide trend to implement models which involve local user groups or communities in the management of coastal and fisheries resources. The book outlines the concepts and theoretical underpinnings of co-management and examines the policy and legal framework governing coastal and fisheries resource management in southern Africa.
It examines the conditions needed to ensure successful co-management, the positive outcomes of adopting this approach, the principal challenges, comparisons with international experience and the viability for South Africa.
Table of ContentsIntroduction; co-management of natural resources - theory and the attendant assumptions; co-management of coastal and fisheries resources in South Africa - policy and legislative framework; the Sokhulu subsistence mussel-harvesting project - co-management in action; the St. Lucia subsistence gillnet fishery; Kosi Bay gillnetting - community-based joint management fishery inside a nature reserve - the amadiba community tourism and natural resource management project - complexity and change - the KEN experimental tourism camp at KwaDapha; industry-government co-management arrangements in the South African offshore demersal hake fishery; co-management of South Africa seaweed resources - a seaweed mariculture project in St. Helena Bay; towards Abalone and Rock Lobster co-management in the hangklip-kleinmond area; co-management of the olifants river harder fishery; lessons learned from nine case coastal & fisheries co-Management studies.
