An assessment of policy responses to the collapse of the West Coast rock lobster stock off Doringbaai

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dc.contributor.advisorLeiman, Anthonyen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorJacobs, Toughedahen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-15T07:29:53Z
dc.date.available2014-09-15T07:29:53Z
dc.date.issued2007en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 40-43).en_ZA
dc.description.abstractIn many of the small communities of South Africa's West Coast, the economic driver has traditionally been the fishing industry. Employment opportunities were largely located either on board the vessels or in a fish-processing factory which in some smaller centres was a monopsonistic employer. The last two decades have seen this system under threat. Fish stocks have declined and fish populations have move southward, while the fishing industry has been restructured to meet BEE imperatives, meaning that old established firms found their quotas even further decreased. To cut costs, fishing companies shed jobs and in extreme cases shut down their smaller operations. As they left the smaller centres they took with them their managerial skills, as well as capital and employment. The fishermen and women in these towns, have found it difficult to fill the vacuum, lacking as they do, organisation, access to credit, administrative and marketing skills, and above all critical information related to the process of issuing fishing rights (Isaacs, 2006, 57), (Amason & Kashorte, 2006, 48). The decline of the West Coast fisheries was latterly accompanied by the extension of the permit process; access to the resource being restructured initially in a 'medium term' and then in a long term rights application process. Those fishermen who were unsuccessful in acquiring access rights were trapped in a cycle of poverty and increasingly forced to fish illegally or 'poach' to survive. The decline of the stock means that there are no simple answers to the problem, I argue however, that it would be beneficial for the South African Government to embark on a co-management programme with these fishing communities.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationJacobs, T. (2007). <i>An assessment of policy responses to the collapse of the West Coast rock lobster stock off Doringbaai</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7474en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationJacobs, Toughedah. <i>"An assessment of policy responses to the collapse of the West Coast rock lobster stock off Doringbaai."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7474en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationJacobs, T. 2007. An assessment of policy responses to the collapse of the West Coast rock lobster stock off Doringbaai. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Jacobs, Toughedah AB - In many of the small communities of South Africa's West Coast, the economic driver has traditionally been the fishing industry. Employment opportunities were largely located either on board the vessels or in a fish-processing factory which in some smaller centres was a monopsonistic employer. The last two decades have seen this system under threat. Fish stocks have declined and fish populations have move southward, while the fishing industry has been restructured to meet BEE imperatives, meaning that old established firms found their quotas even further decreased. To cut costs, fishing companies shed jobs and in extreme cases shut down their smaller operations. As they left the smaller centres they took with them their managerial skills, as well as capital and employment. The fishermen and women in these towns, have found it difficult to fill the vacuum, lacking as they do, organisation, access to credit, administrative and marketing skills, and above all critical information related to the process of issuing fishing rights (Isaacs, 2006, 57), (Amason & Kashorte, 2006, 48). The decline of the West Coast fisheries was latterly accompanied by the extension of the permit process; access to the resource being restructured initially in a 'medium term' and then in a long term rights application process. Those fishermen who were unsuccessful in acquiring access rights were trapped in a cycle of poverty and increasingly forced to fish illegally or 'poach' to survive. The decline of the stock means that there are no simple answers to the problem, I argue however, that it would be beneficial for the South African Government to embark on a co-management programme with these fishing communities. DA - 2007 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2007 T1 - An assessment of policy responses to the collapse of the West Coast rock lobster stock off Doringbaai TI - An assessment of policy responses to the collapse of the West Coast rock lobster stock off Doringbaai UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7474 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationJacobs T. An assessment of policy responses to the collapse of the West Coast rock lobster stock off Doringbaai. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,School of Economics, 2007 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7474en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Economicsen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherEconomicsen_ZA
dc.titleAn assessment of policy responses to the collapse of the West Coast rock lobster stock off Doringbaaien_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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dc.type.qualificationnameMComen_ZA
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