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Small scale fishers to get collective fishing rights

A new amendment bill will give small-scale fishers collective fishing rights for the first time, and is designed to help … More

(8 October) allows for the allocation of fishing rights to identified small-scale fishing communities, A new amendment bill will give small-scale fishers collective fishing rights for the first time, and help root out poverty and poaching in the country’s 150 fishing communities. The Marine Living Resources Amendment Bill, forestry and fisheries next Tuesday, Small scale fishers to get collective fishing rights, which have previously been excluded from the commercial fishing rights allocation process. The bill intends to bring into force the department’s small-scale fishing policy, which is expected to come before the National Assembly’s portfolio committee on agriculture, which supports the setting up of community-based legal entities – in the form of co-operatives – by small-scale fishers to allow fishing communities access to fishing rights.

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