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- Title
A Short History of the Namibian Hake Fishery--a Social-Ecological Analysis.
- Authors
Paterson, Barbara; Kirchner, Carola; Ommer, Rosemary E.
- Abstract
As a legacy of Namibia's colonial past, the country inherited severely depleted fish resources at the time of independence. Today, Namibia's fisheries are almost exclusively industrial. The hake fishery is the country'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'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's fish resources and examine this dilemma and its effects on Namibia's fisheries management.
- Subjects
NAMIBIA; PACIFIC hake fisheries; ECOLOGICAL assessment; SUSTAINABLE development; PACIFIC hake; FISHERY management
- Publication
Ecology & Society, 2013, Vol 18, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
1708-3087
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5751/ES-05919-180466