After the decision taken by the French - South African committee to reduce the budget and the duration of all the selected proposaIs of the first call, Rhodes University and Ifremer decided to revise their joint proposaI and organized a meeting in South Africa in february 1998. A multidisciplinary team composed of economists and specialists in different fields of aquaculture spent on week in South Africa (9 and 15 february 1998) with Prof Hecht and his team in Rhodes University, in order to precise the proposaI and define detailed actions to be carried out within the next two years. The present report summarises the principal conclusions of the survey in term of general approach, detailed methodologies and planning for 1998.