Isaacs, Moenieba (2011) Individual transferable quotas, poverty alleviation and challenges for small-country fisheries policy in South Africa. MAST, Vol.10 (2). pp. 63-84. ISSN 1872-7859
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Since the advent of democracy in 1994, the South African government has created an enabling environment for poor people to benefit from new possibilities and opportunities through democratic reforms. Governance reforms in South Africa's fisheries have aimed to broaden access to marine resources, maintain a stable, international competitive fishing industry and to achieve sustainability of marine resources. This paper argues that the Individual Transferable Quota (itq) system of allocating fishing rights, which was used to maintain stability in the fishing industry, reform the sector through Black Economic Empowerment (bee) and reduce poverty through allocating small quotas to new entrants in poor fishing communities, is incompatible with achieving social justice. The goal of social equity is in conflict with achieving sustainability and stability when reallocating fishing rights. The allocation system failed to allocate, recognise and protect the historical and cultural rights of the artisanal and small-scale fishers to practice their livelihoods. This has led neither to social justice, nor benefited the poor, marginalised and bona fide fishers of coastal communities. The fishers left outside the itq system reorganised in order to defend their socio-political right to practice their livelihoods and launched a class action case against the rights allocation policy.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | ITQ, Quotas, Poverty, Fisheries Policy, South Africa, Fishing Rights, Sustainable Fisheries |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Chitti Babu ICSF |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Jun 2022 07:10 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Jun 2022 07:10 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/12300 |
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