The tyranny of the past: why local histories matter in the South African fisheries |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Oceanography, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa;2. CORDIO East Africa, Mombasa, Kenya;3. SAEON Egagasini Node, Cape Town, South Africa;1. Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, Department of Botany, University of Tartu, Lai 40, 51005 Tartu, Estonia;2. Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, Department of Geography, University of Tartu, Vanemuise 46, 51014 Tartu, Estonia;1. Farallon Institute, 101 H St. Suite Q, Petaluma, CA 94952, USA;2. Oceans & Coasts Research Branch, Department of Environmental Affairs, Private Bag X4390, Cape Town 8000, South Africa;3. Marine Research Institute and Department of Oceanography, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa;4. Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California, Davis, P.O. Box 247, Bodega Bay, CA 94923, USA;5. Marine Science Institute, University of Texas, Port Aransas, TX, USA;6. Department of Biological Sciences & Marine Science Program, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA;7. Environmental Research Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA, Monterey, CA, USA |
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| Abstract: | Co-management is widely advocated internationally as the solution to the purported failure of state management in the fisheries and has won adherents in South Africa. The theory, however, rests on a set of unexamined modernist assumptions, which raise serious doubts about its likely successful import to South Africa. These problems are demonstrated through a review of indigenous co-management in the South African inshore fisheries c.1905–1939. This suggests that co-management in South Africa was a historical compromise between a weak, pre-scientific state and the patrons of client fishing communities menaced by industrialisation whereby control was granted over marine resources within defined sea territories in exchange for governance at the coastal margins. The factors sustaining indigenous co-management have long since passed and the alignment of forces in the current conjuncture is hostile to its re-imposition from outside. |
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