Marine resources
The supplied research scope includes mussels, chitons, sea cucumbers, seaweed and octopus, as well as sandy-shore resources such as ghost crabs and mole crabs.
Tembe-Tsonga Fish Kraals and Heritage
Customary Rights, Rocky Shores and Intertidal Harvesting
This page keeps the Kosi Bay story focused on people, heritage, customary knowledge, rights, conservation access and evidence.
Customary resource governance
Community and research sources document a customary system in which fishing and harvesting areas could be associated with particular communities and authorities. Rocky outcrops, fish-kraal rights and marine-resource tenure belong in the same conversation. The page does not say that every person may harvest anywhere, and it does not assume that customary tenure and a modern permit mean the same thing.
The present legal position concerning harvesting on any particular named rock remains a question requiring the correct current legal and conservation documents. A community account, an historical practice and a present-day legal exemption must be labelled separately.
Rocky shores and the intertidal zone
Food and culture
Intertidal resources can have food, medicinal and cultural uses. The page should describe those uses only where directly supported and should not reduce harvesting to a list of tourist curiosities.
Women’s knowledge
The role of women as intertidal harvesters is part of the requested account. Women must be represented as knowledge holders and participants in the resource system.
What the evidence can and cannot say
Community reports about different rocky outcrops and customary authority are important evidence, but they do not by themselves settle every current legal question. The responsible approach is to place community accounts beside relevant law, permits, research and official documents, then identify what remains unresolved.