Langebaan is a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa on the eastern shore of Langebaan Lagoon. The lagoon was formed by the rising and falling of sea levels during pre-historic times, and is consequently purely a salt water lagoon. The lagoon is the site of the oldest commercial net fishery in South Africa. Traditional small-scale fishers here typically catch Harder using nets cast from small traditional wooden boats called 'bakkies'. Historically, net-fishing has provided consistent food security to the local Langebaan community. Under apartheid, the fishers were forcefully removed from their homes along the water's edge but continued to fish on the site. In 2016, the fishers won a victory in the Western Cape High Court, upon challenging their exclusion from their traditional fishing grounds, which had been rezoned as restricted by the conservation and fisheries authorities without considering their history and their dependence on the net fishery for their livelihoods.