The Marine Living Resources Act (1998), legally recognised subsistence fishers and made
provision for the declaration of coastal areas for their exclusive use. In 2001, a limited …

Women play a critical role in every link of the value chain in small-scale fisheries, although
their best-known roles are in processing and marketing of fish and other fishery products …

Marine ecosystem–scale fisheries research and management must include the fishing effort
of women and men. Even with growing recognition that women do fish, there remains an …

Marine fisheries contribute to the global economy, from the catching of fish through to the
provision of support services for the fishing industry. General lack of data and uncertainty …

The contribution by women to fisheries economies globally continues to be overlooked, in
part, because “fishing” is often narrowly defined as catching fish at sea, from a vessel, using …

With the advent of democracy in South Africa there were great expectations that poor coastal
fishing communities would gain legal access to coastal resources historically relied on for …

Population and development pressures increase the need for proactive strategic
management on a regional or country-wide scale–reactively protecting ecosystems on an …

The effects of anthropogenic aquatic noise on marine invertebrates are poorly understood.
We investigated the impact of seismic surveys on the righting reflex and statocyst …

Conservation of biodiversity remains a challenge as changing climate and other
anthropogenic threats alter species distributions. Assessing vulnerability to future changes …

Research on the socio-economic aspects of marine protected areas (MPAs) in South Africa
is reviewed to guide evaluation and integration. After a brief international review, we used …