SA’s Small-Scale Fishers Have Been Marginalised Since Apartheid – What Needs to Change

Kathleen Auld, World Maritime University and Loretta Feris, University of Pretoria South Africa is home to tens of thousands of small-scale fishers and fishing households. Some fish purely for consumption and subsistence, while others make up a small commercial sector. Small-scale fishers have long suffered discrimination in South Africa. Under the apartheid government’s segregation policies,…