“Subsistence fishing” is no longer a category of fishing in South Africa. Legislation does not recognise it as such so by default the fisheries management does not either. But in KwaZulu Natal the ‘subsistence’ fisher is alive and well and there is an urgent call to go back to the drawing board with the Small-scale Fisheries Policy to accommodate them.
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