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Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Portfolio Committee Presentation on the
Integration of the Branch Fisheries Management
into the DAFF

• 28 AUGUST 2012

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

• Ministerial Mandate
• Branch Fisheries Management Incorporation into
  DAFF
• Future Plans
• Chief Directorates Aquaculture Economic
  development
• Fisheries
  Research Development
• Marine
  Resource Management
• Monitoring
  Control Surveillance
• Conclusions

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Ministerial Mandate Full Integration according
to the 2 Proclamations

• Internal integration of the Branch Fisheries
  Management
• The Branch Fisheries Management has not been
  fully integrated into the DAFF, which has led to
  DAFF being fragmented when executing its mandate
• The mandate regarding fisheries matters
  previously resided with the Department of
  Environmental Affairs and Tourism, and this
  function was transferred to the DAFF from 01
  April 2010
• The Internal integration process that is being
  undertaken aims to unify functions and processes
• It poses definite challenges given the different
  cultures which characterised the functioning of
  the former two departments and have now been
  merged into a single department

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Key Objectives of the Integration Process

• To ensure that the Vision, Mission Culture of
  the DAFF permeates the entire organization
• To ensure that all the services offered by DAFF
  are accessible to all its clients in all
  provinces
• To optimize the utilization of the human,
  financial and physical resources of the
  department through
• Integrated business processes frameworks i.e.,
  avoiding silos
• One-stop center for DAFF services or decentralize
  where appropriate
• Minimize costs related to property rentals
• Avoiding the duplication of functions
• To ensure successful implementation of all
  priority programmes of the Department through the
  utilization of regional capacities

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Fisheries Incorporation into DAFF

• During April 2010 the fisheries function was
  transferred to the DAFF, and it became Programme
  6
• Within Programme 6, the aquaculture function was
  upgraded to become a Chief Directorate (new post)
  and the post of Director Aquaculture was split
  into 2 posts, i.e., Director Aquaculture
  Technical Services and Director Aquaculture
  Management
• A new Directorate post for Small Scale Fisheries
  Management was created in the CD Marine Resource
  Management
• A new post of Director Aquaculture Research was
  created in the CD Fisheries Research and
  Development

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Fisheries Incorporation into DAFF

• The Corporate/support functions previously
  located in MCM were transferred to different
  branches as follows
• Corporate Services
• CD Fisheries Operations Support
• Directorate Integrated Human Resource Management
• Directorate IT
• Chief Financial Office
• CD Financial Management (Fisheries)
• Directorate Supply Chain Management Facilities
• Directorate Revenue Management
• Directorate Financial Management

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Current Status of the Process

• The process thus far comprised of Core Chief
  Directors that makes Branch Fisheries Management
  
• - Aquaculture and Economic Development
• - Fisheries Research Development
• - Marine Resources Management
• - Monitoring, Control and Surveillance

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Current Status of the Process

• The following questions were asked to each
  sub-programme
• Which services that are being rendered that can
  be easily restructured across where they are most
  needed?
• Which units can best render an efficient and
  effective service if located at HO (Pretoria)?
• Given the 4 coastal provinces and Pretoria HO,
  staff members must be given the option to
  indicate where they prefer to based.
• Which services can still be rendered from the
  Western Cape given the existing critical
  infrastructure to enable such services to
  continue to be rendered cost effectively?

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CHIEF DIRECTORATE AQUACULTURE ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENTTo ensure aquaculture growth and
fisheries economic development for sustainable
livelihoods by providing public support and an
integrated platform for management of aquaculture
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Introduction

• Aquaculture an infant sector requiring careful
  development approach
• National Aquaculture Strategic Framework
  developed to bring new dispensation in
  aquaculture
• Effective intergovernmental stakeholder
  engagements platforms

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Management Services

• Sustainable Management
• Licensing and permitting of aquaculture and
  related operations
• Advisory services on legislation and regulations
• Facilitation of EIAs
• Shellfish and finfish monitoring of aquaculture
  and related operations
• Bio-security and environmental assessments, and
  inspection of aquaculture operations
• Development, implementation and review of
  legislative instruments (regulations, permit
  conditions, norms and standards, guidelines),
  policies and strategies.

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Technical Support Services

• Technical support (training, advisory) to fish
  farmers
• Information and data collection, management and
  dissemination
• Economic and statistical services
• Setting of aquaculture RD agenda
• Coordination and management of research
  activities, processes and outcomes in respect of
  aquaculture RD agenda
• Perform RD work and disseminate results and
• Development and management of aquaculture
  development facilities.

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Restructuring Aquaculture Services

• Can easily be done through existing linkages
• PDAs, State-Owned Hatcheries Demonstration
  Centres, Universities, Colleges of Agriculture
• Proposed model
• Regional approach Inland (Pretoria) coastal
  (Cape Town) regions
• Inland (Pretoria)
• Free State, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo North
  West provinces
• Coastal (Cape Town)
• Eastern Cape, Kwazulu-Natal, Northern Cape,
  Western Cape provinces

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Aquaculture Management in South Africa

• Coastal
• Management services
• Licensing permitting (including advisory on
  legislation)
• Shellfish Monitoring
• Sector coordination services
• National
• Management services
• General policy development work (strategy,
  legislation)
• Facilitation of EIAs environmental monitoring
• Finfish monitoring
• Bio-security inspections
• Sector coordination
• All international engagements

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University of Limpopo
Seapoint Aquarium
ADC Gariep
Foretrust, Cape Town
Future sites
Future region
Delpen, Pretoria
Rhodes University
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CHIEF DIRECTORATE FISHERIES RESEARCH
DEVELOPMENTTo ensure the promotion of the
sustainable development of fisheries resources
and ecosystems by conducting and supporting
appropriate research
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Current Services

• These are chiefly internal services, in which the
  CDFRD provides scientific advice to the CDMRM
  for decision-making
• CDFRD also makes scientific inputs to Regional
  Fisheries Management Organizations in which South
  Africa participates, and performs a watchdog
  function here, ensuring that science used for
  decision-making in these forums is of a
  sufficient quality
• CDFRD evaluates applications, and issues permits
  for research under Section 83 of the MLRA.  The
  permitting function is largely done
  electronically as all relevant stakeholders have
  access to such technology.  Permitting requires
  multiple inputs from scientific experts and is
  also required to co-operate closely with DEA
  Oceans Coasts, particularly with regard to
  joint permits.

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Current level of regionalization

• The CDFRD currently has staff based in outlying
  offices as follows
• Sandy Point
• Saldanha Bay
• Mossel Bay
• Port Elizabeth
• The CDFRD sees great potential for wider
  regionalization of research functions, both in
  coastal and inland provinces

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Challenges to further regionalization

• The current level of regionalization is what can
  be achieved with the resources (human capital and
  financial resources) currently available to the
  CDFRD, as current resources are already
  re-prioritized and stretched to past the maximum
• Further regionalization could therefore only be
  achieved by expansion, would therefore depend on
  the availability of new resources
• Regionalization would be expensive in terms of
  building new laboratories, research facilities,
  and stocking these with appropriate research
  equipment, in other centers

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Challenges to further regionalization

• The proposed solution
• In the short- to medium-term, it is pragmatic to
  utilize existing capacity, facilities and
  infrastructure in other centers through
  collaborative agreements with existing research
  organizations within and around those areas
  (universities, national research facilities,
  etc.)
• In the longer term, in-house DAFF regionalization
  can occur as resources are made available.

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CHIEF DIRECTORATE MARINE RESOURCES
MANAGEMENTTo ensure the sustainable utilization
and equitable and orderly access to the marine
living resources through improved management and
regulation
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Current Services Rendered

• Management of fisheries
• Allocation of fishing rights
• Permit Conditions, Policies (Regulations)
• Permits / Exemptions
• Allocation of TAC/TAE
• Rights registers
• Transfer of rights
• International Engagements

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Current Services Rendered cont

• Gather, process economic information
• Fishing Effort and Vessel Changes
• Multidisciplinary inputs of knowledge are needed,
  both concerning the resource base of the
  fisheries and the social, economic and cultural
  contexts of fisheries and fisheries development
  (Stakeholder Management)
• Recreational Fisheries cross-cutting in a
  number of sectors
• Fish Processing Establishments cross-cutting
• Implementation of Certification Systems (i.e. EU
  Regulations, China Certification)

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PROPOSED STRUCTURE/SERVICES

• DECENTRALISED SERVICES
• Submission of applications and the collection
  thereof (Customer Services)
• Processing issuing of all permits (Back Office
  and delegated authorities)
• All Payments (Permits, Levies)
• General Fisheries Management (Operations)

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PROPOSED STRUCTURE/SERVICES

• All the above services to be rendered in major
  nodal points as follows
• Northern Cape Port Nolloth
• West Coast Saldanha
• Cape Town
• South Coast Hermanus
• Mossel Bay
• EC PE, EL Pond land
• KZN Durban

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PROPOSED STRUCTURE/SERVICES Cont

• 2. SERVICES TO OFFERED AT CAPE TOWN OFFICES
• Fisheries Management (i.e. implementation of
  policies delegated at Middle Management)
• Implementation of Certification Systems (EU,
  China, etc)
• Fisheries Economists who collect and analyze data
  to inform decision making
• SERVICES TO BE RENDERED AT HEAD QUARTERS
• Policy development
• Strategic leadership

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CHIEF DIRECTORATE MONITORING CONTROL AND
SURVEILLANCE To ensure the promotion and
protection of sustainable use of marine living
resources by intensifying enforcement and
compliance
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MCS COVERAGE
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ROLES OF EACH DIRECTORATE MCS

• VMS
• Patrols and Inspections of vessels at Sea
• Reactive oil Pollution abatement
• Fire fighting
• Search and rescue
• 40Fishery Control Officers

FISHERIES PROTECTION VESSELS
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FISHERIES PROTECTION VESSELS CURRENT OVERALL
PATROL AREA
Marion and Prince Edward EEZ
SA EEZ

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Fisheries Protection Vessels

• 1300 SA and Foreign flagged vessels
• One Off - Shore Patrol vessel (OPV)
• Two In - shore Patrol vessels (IPV)
• 12 Small craft fleet
• Total Ocean Area of coverage 1milKm2

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The Vessel Monitoring System (VMS)
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Directorate Compliance Key Responsibilities

• Land based patrols and inspections
• Monitor 22 Consumptive Commercial Fishing sectors
  FPEs, Landings Restaurants
• Recreational Fishers 250 000
• Subsistence Fishers 800
• Interim relief 916
• Monitoring of exports and imports of fish at
  points of entry and exit.
• 4X4 regulation
• Monitoring of Aquaculture farms,
• 215 Fishery Control Officers to cover a coastal
  line of 3500 KM ratio 117km

COMPLIANCE
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INSPECTIONS

FPEs
Landing site
Road blocks
Cold Stores
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Dir. Monitoring Surveillance Key
Responsibilities

• Investigation of transgressions in term of the
  Marine Living Resources Act
• Investigations of Rights Holders
• Special Operations
• Stations Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and East
  London
• 30 officials

MONITORING AND SURVEILLANCE
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STRATEGY FOR FULL INTEGRATION

• Engagement with all Senior Managers Done
• Engagement with all Staff through their
  Sub-programmes Done
• Feedback received from all Sub-programme and
  there is Overwhelming support from the majority
  of staff members for the process
• Acknowledgement that DAFF as a whole need full
  integration at both national (HO) and
  regional/provincial offices and that is a
  positive factor
• Full consultation with the Unions about the
  impact of full integration to staff
• Investigate availability of Office Space in
  Pretoria to accommodate Units ready to move
  underway
• Undertake an Audit of all rented space across the
  country and engage Department of Public Works
  about the implication of the cancellation of
  existing lease agreements in line with

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CONCLUSIONS

• The acknowledgement that internal integration
  involves coordination and collaboration this
  aspects were never received enough attention as
  the focus was more to capacitate the new
  structure of the department
• DAFF will fast-track the process to establish
  regional offices for all the services that it
  must render regionally including Fisheries
  functions as soon as the as soon as an audit of
  all rented offices by DAFF across the country is
  finalized.
• Support services will also be rationalized
  according to the needs of each regional office as
  Fisheries and Forestry remains DAFFs national
  competency.

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CONCLUSIONS

• Address the issues of office space at Head Office
  as all top management (DDG Chief Directors) and
  Corporate Support units are relocated to Pretoria
  in the short-term.
• Branches Corporate Services, Chief Financial
  Office and Stakeholder Relations will finalise
  the support integration once the regionalization
  process is finalised
• All the above Branches will be managed by the
  respective DDGs and Chief Directors at Head
  Office

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