1. Protecting Marine Resources : a tangled net
A grassroots Perspective
Presented by : Pedro F. Garcia
Chairperson : SAUFF
Co –chair : the COLLECTIVE

2. Within the South African context
What are the current perceptions at a grassroots level
What is the relationship between communities and the various law-enforcement agencies.
Small scale fisheries and the FRAP dilemma
Vulnerability of coastal communities
Grassroots communications frame-work
Ownership and co-management of coastal marine resources

3. Communities, law-enforcement & monitoring agencies
Fco’s
Patrol vessels
Saps
Saps water wing
National parks
Local law enforcement
Specialized units
Near-shore monitors
IR monitors
Green Scorpions – DEA??

4. Perceptions Daff has become like the Mafia.(West Coast)
Laws and regulations being put in place to deny communities access to resources (Overberg Region)
Fco’s are involved with poachers and focus on soft targets like community fishers to hide their wrong doings. (West Coast)
Abalone – when fisheries was closed SA was exporting 2000t legally. After re-opening SA exporting 4000t with a legal TAC of 92t????? (Cape Town)
Fco’s are easily corrupted.
Everyday 400 – 500 divers are entering our waters.
Daff criminalize members of coastal communities.
Different agencies employ different approaches in terms of regulations which is confusing...

5. Small scale fisheries and the FRAP dilemma
IR – equality court ruling 2007 (WC/NC)
Subsistence fisheries (EC/KZN)
Sector policy, permit conditions
SSFP 2012, SSF impl plan, SSF regs
Overarching policy
MLRA
MPA’s, Msp Bill, Phakisa (oceans economy)
NDP

6. Constitutional obligations
Restitution
Transformation and the redistribution of wealth.
Acknowledgement of traditional and ancestrol rights.
Right to basic needs such as water and electricity
Food security
Right to dignity and respect
Intl guiding principles; VGGT’s, AFRM etc.

7. Grassroots communications frame-work
Realistic rights allocation plan for next 5-10
Collective
Platform through which agencies can communicate with communities
Single largest near-shore org in SA

8. Ownership & co-management
Christian Adams Chairperson Coastal Links South Africa Co-chair – “the Collective” When we want to establish good working relations between fishers and FCO’s, we must first change the FCO mindset from Apartheid policing to a mindset of co-management. Only when FCO’s see small scale fishers as legitimate users of the resources that will we be able to co-manage.

9. Everything else is tinckering
Thank you, but……
Everything else is tinckering