There are growing concerns in the South African fishing sector around the outcomes of the Fishing Rights Allocation Process and the conclusion of the small-scale fishing process for the Western Cape, which comprises the majority of fish stocks in the country. The Frap appeals process has already been further extended after many traditional fisherfolk were excluded from the initial process when their applications were rejected.
The allocation of fishing rights entails policy development and the division of shares in the TAC or TAE of a particular sector and distributing these shares to worthy applicants. Needless to say, these rights are very valuable and from early on concerns have been raised about the potential for the politicisation of the process.
There is no policy imperative that speaks to this specific notion and while the intention to make the process more inclusive must be commended, the method is flawed. Substantialrights went to entrants as far from the coast as Boksburg. It’s hard to imagine how a Boksburg-based entity is being preferred over our traditional coastal fisherfolk.
Not all bad decisions in fishing rights allocations should be interpreted as manipulation. Some are simply made through Fisheries officials’ failure to implement their own policy. The sudden removal of some of South Africa’s top tuna fishing companies is a body blow to the individual fishers concerned but it is a potential windfall to other countries. Tuna are highly migratory and there are international bodies that aim to conserve tuna by regulating how much tuna a country can catch.
China will and have taken all the fish.
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