Making space for inland fishers

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Inland Fisheries From late 1800 to mid-1900, inland fisheries received ample attention and support. Our country’s first freshwater fisheries legislation was promulgated, and state hatcheries were created. Mostly, these stocked alien fish species for recreational purposes. The booming dam building era of the 1960s and 1970s saw large promotion of inland fisheries for commercial and livelihood purposes as part of the then-‘homelands’ development policy, but proved to be mostly non-viable due to the low prices of freshwater fish and the problematic concept of so-called development projects in former homelands.

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