A critique of and recommendations for a subsistence fishery, Lake St Lucia, South Africa

The fish resources of Lake St Lucia, the largest estuary on the eastcoast of Africa, present resource managers of the Natal Parks Board with acommon property resource (CPR) problem. Problems associated with illegal gillnetting by local people from three tribal areas, prompted the introduction of asy...

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Published in:	Biodiversity and conservation Vol. 11; no. 7; p. 1223
Main Authors:	Crook, Brenda Js, Mann, Bruce Q
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht Springer Nature B.V 01-07-2002
Subjects:	Brackish Estuaries Fisheries management Lake fisheries Lakes Pisces South Africa PSW, South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, St. Lucia L
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Summary:	The fish resources of Lake St Lucia, the largest estuary on the eastcoast of Africa, present resource managers of the Natal Parks Board with acommon property resource (CPR) problem. Problems associated with illegal gillnetting by local people from three tribal areas, prompted the introduction of asystem of legal, subsistence netting. This paper reviews the legal fisheries inthese three areas from 1995 to 1997, and examines existing organizationalarrangements, suggesting reasons why the three fisheries show differences infunctioning. By employing concepts from CPRs theory, elements of anorganizational design for fisheries management involving local users and theconservation organization staff are proposed.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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ISSN:	0960-3115 1572-9710
DOI:	10.1023/A:1016074802295