Rehabilitating mussel beds in Coffee Bay, South Africa: Towards fostering cooperative small-scale fisheries governance and enabling community upliftment

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Rehabilitating mussel beds in Coffee Bay, South Africa : Towards fostering cooperative small-scale fisheries governance and enabling community upliftment

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2016-09-29
Springer Science and Business Media LLC,2017
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LIBRIS-ID:oai:DiVA.org:su-142462
https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-142462URI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-016-0823-4DOI

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Along the coast of South Africa, marine resources play a significant role in supporting livelihoods and contributing to food security in impoverished rural communities. Post-apartheid fisheries laws and policies have begun to address traditional fishing rights and development needs, and new management arrangements are being implemented. One such initiative has been the Mussel Rehabilitation Project in Coffee Bay, which piloted a resource rehabilitation technique at several overexploited fishing sites. Mussel stocks in these exploited areas had dropped to under 1 % mussel cover, and during the project period, stocks increased to[ 80 % cover, supporting a sustainable harvest well above national daily bag limits. This stock enhancement was achieved only after the project had started to address social challenges such as the lack of local management institutions and the need to enhance food security. The project embarked on training and institution-building; it formed a robust community mussel management committee; and developed a local resource management plan, facilitating increased community participation in the day-to-day management of the resource. The project also saw the initiation of various ancillary projects aimed at improving food security and stimulating the local economy and hence alleviating pressure on the marine resources. Here we review this 10-yearproject's outcomes, and present lessons for smallscale fisheries governance in South Africa and internationally. We show, through empirical experience, that balancing stock rebuilding needs in a context of widespread poverty and dependency on natural resources by a local fisher community can only be addressed through an integrated approach to development. Participation of resource users and a thorough understanding of the local context are imperative to negotiating appropriate smallscale fisheries governance approaches. We recommend that the implementation of South Africa's newly minted SmallScale Fisheries Policy should begin with bottom-up, demonstrative resource management measures such as mussel rehabilitation. This type of initiative can deliver short-term food security benefits and foster social learning towards sustainable and cooperative fisheries governance.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER Naturresursteknik hsv//swe
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY Environmental Engineering hsv//eng
NATURVETENSKAP Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap hsv//swe
NATURAL SCIENCES Earth and Related Environmental Sciences hsv//eng
Community upliftment
Fisheries governance
Mussel rehabilitation
Perna perna
Small-scale fisheries

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Raemaekers, Serge (författare)
Halling, ChristinaStockholms universitet,Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och botanik(Swepub:su)halli (författare)
Stockholms universitetInstitutionen för ekologi, miljö och botanik (creator_code:org_t)

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Ingår i:Ambio: Springer Science and Business Media LLC46:2, s. 214-2260044-74471654-7209

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