Regulatory incoherence and economic potential of freshwater recreational fisheries: the trout triangle in South Africa

Marire, Juniours; Snowball, Jeanette D; Fraser, Gavin C G

Title: Regulatory incoherence and economic potential of freshwater recreational fisheries: the trout triangle in South Africa
Creator: Marire, Juniours
Creator: Snowball, Jeanette D
Creator: Fraser, Gavin C G
Date Issued: 2014
Date: 2014
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68621
Identifier: vital:29295
Identifier: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2753/JEI0021-3624480406
Description: Publisher version
Description: We apply John R. Commons’s negotiational psychology, specifically his principle of sovereignty, to the development of a discordant regulatory culture and its likely impact on the economic potential of recreational fishing. Using South African environmental judicial precedents and other documentation, we formulate six plausible hypotheses. We argue that regulatory incoherence, entitlement insecurity, corporate-dominated social valuation, strategic power coalitions, lack of procedural fairness, and the extent of judicial enforcement of environmental rights help explain the economic potential and isolation of the freshwater recreational fisheries sector. We find a consistent pattern of extraction and monopolization of sovereign power by the Department of Mineral Resources from propertied parties. Thus, regulatory domination is a major mechanism affecting the economic potential of recreational fisheries in the Trout Triangle. While Commons postulated that private property is a sufficient condition for participation in the determination and use of sovereign power, we argue that private/public property is only a necessary condition. The conjunctive sufficient condition is the existence of both regulatory coherence between spheres of government and property.
Format: 25 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Relation: Journal of Economic Issues
Relation: Marire, J., Snowball, J.D. and Fraser, G. (2014) Regulatory Incoherence and Economic Potential of Freshwater Recreational Fisheries: The Trout Triangle in South Africa, Journal of Economic Issues, 48:4, 981-1004
Relation: Journal of Economic Issues volume 48 number 4 981 1004 2014 1946-326X
Rights: Routledge
Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Journal of Economic Issues

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