Rights and wrongs: the South African case of fishing rights allocation

Masifundise explain the new policy in South Africa for securing community rights to fisheries, which they describe as promoting human rights and the well being of small-scale fisheries in ways that will undo the harms of the previous 'rights based approach', based on individual transferable quotas.  The new policy for small-scale fisheries is however yet to be fully implemented. 

Read more
Print Friendly and PDF

Interview with Tim Bostock on the Wealth Based Approach to fisheries

CFFA interviews Tim Bostock, Senior Fisheries Specialist at the World Bank on the Wealth Based Approach to fisheries reform. Tim clarifies what he sees as the benefits of the wealth based approach and responds to some of the criticisms that have been made against it. 

Read more
Print Friendly and PDF