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Based on 18 months of Marieke's ethnographic fieldwork for her PhD, Marieke and Astrid suggest ways in which marine resource lave enforcement can be evaluated at the level of individual fisheries compliance inspectors. We show how individual assessments can be scaled up to station, regional and provincial levels, where they can also contribute to, e.g., Ecological Risk Assessments.
As an ecosystem researcher in the Benguela, Lynne made a contribution to a synthesis paper on ocean boundary currents and how these are being monitored globally. Read the paper here.
Remember when Ivan Martins visited us from Saõ Paulo during his PhD research? Now the paper stemming from Ivan's and Louise's collaboration during this time has been published in Human Ecology. It compares the vulnerability of fishing communities in the southern Brazil Bight and in the southern Cape. Find the paper here.
View the following link: https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2019-07-26-new-large-scale-collaboration-for-the-ocean
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The group around the South African Research Chair in Marine Ecology and Fisheries (SARCHI ME&F) is concerned with developing methodology for the implementation of an ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) in the Benguela large marine ecosystem, and more generally, methodology for a systems approach to managing human interactions with the ocean. This includes coping with, and adapting to, climate change in marine social-ecological systems.
The interdisciplinary team is led by Associate Professor Astrid Jarre and Dr Lynne Shannon.
We are affiliated with UCT’s Marine Research (MA-RE) Institute and UCT’s Centre for Statistics in Environment, Ecology and Conservation (SEEC). We are grateful for core funding by the DST/NRF South African Research Chair Initiative, and additional funding from the CEC, UCT, the NRF and UKRI/GCRF. Our professional network includes colleagues in South Africa, southern Africa and world-wide.