{"id":6231,"date":"2019-10-30T08:41:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T05:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6231"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","slug":"how-to-get-fishers-more-involved-in-decisions-that-affect-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/30\/how-to-get-fishers-more-involved-in-decisions-that-affect-them\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Get Fishers More Involved In Decisions That Affect Them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Louise C. Gammage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Africa\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/3\/a-y4773e.pdf\">approach<\/a>&nbsp;to managing its\nfishing industry is supposed to include all interested parties. Fishers and\ngovernment should work together to make decisions. But this has proven to be\neasier said than done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The country&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/esa\/sustdev\/documents\/WSSD_POI_PD\/English\/WSSD_PlanImpl.pdf\">adopted<\/a>&nbsp;the\necosystem approach to fisheries management at the World Summit on Sustainable\nDevelopment in 2002. This approach aims to keep the marine ecosystem healthy\nwhile allowing people to make a sustainable living from it. Later, the country\nadopted a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nda.agric.za\/docs\/policy\/policysmallscalefishe.pdf\">small-scale\nfisheries policy<\/a>&nbsp;that follows the same bottom-up management\nprinciples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putting it into practice requires systems thinking \u2013 looking\nat how the parts of a system relate to each other and how the system functions\nover time. This is where South Africa has fallen short of its policy goals. The\ngovernment\u2019s fisheries management still works from the top down, leaving very\nlittle room for anyone else, such as small-scale fishers, to contribute. And it\ndoesn\u2019t build their capacity to get involved in governing fisheries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the government is to implement the ecosystem approach, it has to create space for participation \u2013 from making policy and decisions to managing activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-to-get-fishers-more-involved-in-decisions-that-affect-them-124716\">Read more&#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Louise C. Gammage South Africa\u2019s&nbsp;approach&nbsp;to managing its fishing industry is supposed to include all interested parties. Fishers and government should work together to make decisions. But this has proven&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}