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Provedor de dados: | 7
País: | Canada
Título: | A Short History of the Namibian Hake Fishery&amp;#8212;a Social-Ecological Analysis
Autores: | Paterson, Barbara; Marine Research Institute (Ma-Re), Zoology Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Barbara@paterson.alt.na; Kirchner, Carola; National Marine Information and Research Centre (NatMirc), Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Namibia; University of Cape Town, Graduate School of Business, South Africa; carola.kirchner32@gmail.com; Ommer, Rosemary E.; University of Victoria; ommer@uvic.ca.
Data: | 2013-12-17
Ano: | 2013
Palavras-chave: | Distant water fleets; Fisheries; Hake; Merlucius capensis; Merluccius paradoxus; Namibia; Namibianisation; Northern Benguela; South West Africa; Sustainable fisheries development.
Resumo: | As a legacy of Namibia&amp;#8217;s colonial past, the country inherited severely depleted fish resources at the time of independence. Today, Namibia&amp;#8217;s fisheries are almost exclusively industrial. The hake fishery is the country&amp;#8217;s most important fishery, which was restructured from a pre-independence foreign fishery into one that is characterized by locally based, vertically integrated fishing and processing companies. It is widely believed that Namibia has successfully combined the neoliberal economics that have been characteristic of the development narratives since the 1980s with welfarist goals for poverty reduction. However, there are strong indications that the fish stocks are declining, while the high economic expectations for the fishery have not been fulfilled. Rather, it seems that the Namibian government&amp;#8217;s attempt to combine economic neoliberalism and social equity has, in fact, created a developmental dilemma. We track the environmental impact of the historic exploitation of Namibia&amp;#8217;s fish resources and examine this dilemma and its effects on Namibia&amp;#8217;s fisheries management.
Tipo: | Peer-Reviewed Reports
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | vol18/iss4/art66/
Editor: | Resilience Alliance
Formato: | text/html application/pdf
Fonte: | Ecology and Society; Vol. 18, No. 4 (2013)