Minister of agriculture‚ forestry and fisheries Senzeni Zokwana. Picture: GCIS
The government is concerned that the multibillion-rand sector remains untransformed and dominated by a few companies. In 2016 then president Jacob Zuma signed into law the Marine Living Resources Amendment Act, which recognises small-scale fishers who have been marginalised in the allocation of fishing rights.
In a reply to a question from the EFF in parliament last week, agriculture, forestry and fisheries minister Senzeni Zokwana confirmed that the department was looking to increase quotas allocated to small-scale fishermen and reduce allocations to established operators. In addition, a minimum of 50% of the Total Allowable Effort of the line fishery and 25% of the TAE in the squid fishery are intended to be allocated to small-scale fishers, he said. TAE refers to the total amount of effort — vessels, fishermen or hours — that can be applied to a fishery.The department has also allocated “certain concession areas in the seaweed fishery to the small-scale sector, as well as in the netfish fishery to the small-scale sector”, he said.
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