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Velddrift Case Study

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2. Different marine living resources are harvested in and around velddrift. These resources include Sardines (Harvested at saldahna bay), anchovies and tuna species which are the resources for the big fishing industries in and around velddrift and they are captured by using purse seine vessels and trawler vessels. Another living resource includes Mullets which are the resources among the locals owning small businesses and they are captures by gill nets, beach seine nets, ring nets and traps. Fence or maze traps, built at right-angles from shore-lines, are used to guide spawning migrations of mullets into large retaining areas in the berg river estuary. Some other resource includes Galjoens, west coast Steen bras, Elf and Snoek fish; these are …show more content…

Different legislations have been applied to manage this Mullets resource at velddrift. These legislations include; Marine living resource act, 18/98, and Environment Conservation Act, 73/89. The Marine living resource act aims to provide for the conservation of the marine ecosystem, which includes long term sustainable utilisation of resources and orderly access to exploitation, utilization protection of certain living resources. This act is being used at the Berg river estuary where Mullets is the main living resource harvested by communities. The purpose of the act is to provide control over this resource in a rational and unbiased manner to the benefit of all communities of velddrift. The act aims to achieve the best use and ecological sustainable development of Mullets species at the Berg Estuary (Waternet.co.za, 2016). This legislation also states that no person has the authority to engage in commercial fishing or any other type of fishing, or participate in Mari-culture and to operate a fish processing establishment of fishing, no person is allowed to abolish any fauna and flora rather than to partake in fishing Mullets species. For a person to undertake or engage to operate a fish process establishment or to undertake in any sort of commercial or subsistence fishing, one must be granted a right to do so by DAFF (Anon,

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