摘要：The Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem is an eastern boundary current system dominated by coastalupwelling. It is a very productive region and sustains important fisheries for Angola, Namibia and South Africa. 1The Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem displays a high amount of variability and consists of four shelfsubsystems, including the Agulhas Bank subsystem off the southern Cape coast. 2,3 The roughly triangular AgulhasBank extends approximately 117 km (63 nautical miles) off Cape Agulhas, within the South African exclusiveeconomic zone. This study focused on the small-scale commercial linefishery that operates in the inshore areaof the Agulhas Bank and primarily targets silver kob (Argyrosomus inodorus). The traditional linefishery in SouthAfrica is a boat-based, multi-user, multi-species and multi-area fishery that targets 50 commercially important fishspecies. 4,5 Rights allocation in this sector is done in accordance with a total applied effort, which limits the amountof effort that may be expended. The first allocation of fishing rights in line with the current total applied effort tookplace in 2003. This allocation, fraught with challenges, resulted in 450 rights granted. Crew not included in theinitial allocation were subsequently granted interim relief permits for subsistence purposes.
关键词：vulnerability;stressors; climate change; small-scale fisheries; social-ecological systems
