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Sustainable Fisheries: Bridging the gap
between legislation and implementation
“Sustainable Fisheries,” presented stringently, involving excessive fines
at The Tributaries Seminar (Oct 18), and jail time, the opposite was true
addresses our assumption that solid for the policing of illegal
marine resources legislation in consumptive activities, where fines
South Africa, together with various were negligible and jail time
entities responsible for its unlikely. Danai’s research revealed
enforcement, should result in both that abalone poaching syndicates
the protection of marine resources and corruption posed one of the
in Algoa Bay from over-exploitation most immediate threats to marine
and unsustainable utilization, and sustainability. Along with glaring
the promotion of non-consumptive, policing disparities, major
eco-tourism. But this not what contributors to this threat were the
Danai found during her research. failures relating to implementation.
Instead she found a very high Her aim was to understand such
incidence of illegal, unregulated, failures, preliminary to asking how
and unreported fishing. Further, problems of implementation can be
while the non-consumptive tackled. This is, of course, a complex
operators, related to eco-tourism undertaking, given that South Africa
activities, which did not remove has 3000km of coastline, two major
resources from the ocean, were currents, and an extremely rich
being policed and monitored very diversity of flora and fauna.
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