Property and accessing rights in public dams

Abstract

South Africa has great potential for development and enhancement of inland fisheries through use of storage dams and lakes This potential remains largely under/unutilised Inland fisheries could promote rural livelihoods & food security WRC & DAFF commissioned a 4 yr “Baseline and scoping study on the development and sustainable utilisation of storage dams for inland fisheries and their contribution to rural livelihoods” Institutions: PLAAS, Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science (DIFS)- Rhodes, Africa Centre for Water Research (ACWR) and South Africa Institute for Biodiversity (SAIB) Current delivery– diagnostic research on existing property & access rights in order to recommend revisions